Susan Lim Quotes

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

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.

Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library.

I always like to do quite a lot of homework; I quite like to do the research. If I didn't do this, I think I would like to be a researcher.

I'm a big fan of teachers.

At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.

I see myself as an educator.

As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how meticulously manage my time.

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

I've used my time at 'GH' to learn some discipline.

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I wanted to be a teacher.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Themes around education and learning run through my work.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm writing a book, which I probably do two out of every three years, it's like having a second job. I squeeze in the hours when I can.

Education is such a noble profession, it's a wonderful way to serve.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.