Quotes about Non-Academic

Brad Thor

I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

Stacey Dooley

I left school at 15, didn't pick up my GCSEs, didn't do A-levels, didn't go to uni.

Jay McInerney

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

Grace Paley

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

Lapo Elkann

I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.

Woody Norris

I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.

Dove Cameron

I skipped ninth grade. I went from eighth to tenth, and then I graduated a year early to start working, and it was a big blessing for me because I was not a school person, although I really do miss having that kind of environment.

Conrad Aiken

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.

Theo Paphitis

I'm not massively academic. I'm a commonsense person.

Tim Pigott-Smith

I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic.

John Irving

I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.

Douglass North

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

Henry Adams

The Southerner has no mind; he has temperament. He was not a scholar; he had no intellectual training; he could not analyze an idea, and he could not even conceive of even admitting two; but in life, one could get along very well without ideas, if one only had the social instincts.

This quotation from one of America’s great historians illustrates the cultural divide that existed between the North and South just prior to the Civil War. While it was true that the quality of education in the South was far inferior to that of the North (a disparity that would take almost 150 years to dissipate), there was a snobbishness and social intolerance that existed and persisted into the 21st Millennium. It was virtually impossible to debate the slavery issue between Northerners and Southerners as the two did not even recognize the same kind of logic and analytic methods.

Michelle Dockery

I wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate.

Julia Holter

I take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the word, but there's a really important element of something kind of mysterious. It's not academic or esoteric.

Karolina Pliskova

I'm not studious at all. I'm really far from that. I have been better at everything else. I find school terribly tiresome and boring.

Alan Sugar

I'm a commercial person, not an academic.

Taylor Phinney

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.

Charles Frazier

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.

Guy Davenport

I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.

Juliette Lewis

I don't approach anything I do like an academic. I'm not trained, and I work with intuition a great deal.

Tom Verlaine

I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.

Diplo

If anyone takes me seriously then they actually must have a problem .. Music is fun its not algebra.

Lenora Crichlow

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

Non-Academic Quotes