American Academic Quotes

As we have seen, reason is even our highest capacity in the sense that it is the only one capable of directing and criticizing all our faculties, including itself. Reason is the unqualified capacity to think and act, because it is the capacity to think and act according to norms.

I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
A genre is maintained by the conventions of a community, and in most cases serves specific functions within the system of practices of particular institutions of that community.

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.

Thomas Woods
Thomas Woods
There is one way, and only one, of correctly reading a Latin hexameter. There may be three or four ways of reading an English blank verse line. I venture to say that no two mortals ever read aloud any given long passage of verse with precisely the same rhythms.

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

Today, organizations are competing in complex environments so that an accurate understanding of their goals and the methods for attaining those goals is vital. The Balanced Scorecard translates an organization's mission and strategy into a comprehensive set of performance measures that provides the framework for a strategic measurement and management system.

True love offers a safe place to be you; it's not driven by a desire to rescue or a need to perform. True love values the other person for who they are and celebrates healthy separateness.

Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.

William De Witt Hyde
William De Witt Hyde
When dealing with ancient sources, we cannot be content to know the religious and social settings out of which these sources have come. We should also know something about how the ancients viewed the writing of history and biography, for in the Gospels and Acts apparently we are dealing with three ancient biographies and one two-volume historical monograph (Luke-Acts).

The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife.

Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.

A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene.

Attention is focused mental engagement on a particular item of information. Items come into our awareness, we attend to a particular item, and then we decide whether to act.

In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson
Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.

The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.

If we could produce one or two more Madame Curies, that would accomplish far more for the advancement of women than any amount of agitation, argument and legislation.

Legal concepts are supernatural entities which do not have a verifiable existence except to the eyes of faith.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

Administration is the process and agency which is responsible for the determination of the aims for which an organization and its management are to strive, which establishes the broad policies under which they are to operate and which gives general oversight to the continuing effectiveness of the total operation in reaching the objectives sought.

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Tarleton Gillespie
Tarleton Gillespie
Gabriel is a unique archangel in the sense that it is almost certain that she is the only female in the higher echelons.