Agnes Repplier Quotes

I like to work - I probably work too much.

I divide my time equally between teaching and research.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.

I seem to get totally wrapped up in teaching and working with students during the school year. During the summer, I try to spend time in the real world, writing code for therapy and perhaps for some useful purpose.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.

I want to complete my MBA but don't know when I will find time from my cricket schedule.

During the day, I'm a business owner. I'm a teacher and a mentor.

I was teaching history and coaching both tennis and track along with football. I felt like I had the best of both worlds. I was pretty comfortable. I thought I would be doing what I was doing for the rest of my life.

Far too many people hide behind their busy lifestyles

There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast.

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.

In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend enough time with my children. Now, when I get an all-important call, I sometimes say that I'm having lunch with my granddaughter. And I do not apologize

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.

I learned a lot about the business side of the industry and some new production tools. It's getting more and more difficult, because of my exploding gig schedule.

Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.

It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.

Great hospitals do two things. They look after patients, and they teach young doctors. We look after clients, and we teach young advertising people.

Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you're too busy to make a life.

I've read something that Bill Gates said about six months ago. He said, ‘I worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ And I know what he means, because I worked really, really hard in my 20s too. Literally, you know, 7 days a week, a lot of hours every day. And it actually is a wonderful thing to do, because you can get a lot done. But you can't do it forever, and you don't want to do it forever, and you have to come up with ways of figuring out what the most important things are and working with other people even more.

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.