Quotes About Sabbatical

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.

Anti-sabbatical: A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time (often one year). The intention is usually to raise enough funds to partake in another, more personally meaningful activity such as watercolor sketching in Crete or designing computer knit sweaters in Hong Kong. Employers are rarely informed of intentions

The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.

When someone like me takes a sabbatical, it leads to a few happy realisations. It was only when I was away that I realised how films are such a big part of my life.

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

It is a gift few people will ever be presented with, so take it. Take a year to do nothing.

I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it. And then I also like to work nonstop, maybe for a year-and-a-half, and then take a year off.

I had taken a bit of a sabbatical because I was producing and directing films. But acting has always been my passion and it is something that I will continue to do.

take off as much time as you like.

I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.

I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

My sabbatical from Bollywood was a conscious decision. I was never in the rat race.

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

I run a design studio in New York. Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year. In that year, we are not available for any of our clients. We are totally closed. And as you can imagine, it is a lovely and very energetic time.

On my tombstone it will say, 'At last, a day off.'

I lived in L.A. for a year when I was four - my dad was doing a sabbatical at UCLA - so it always remained quite a familiar place.

To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's not important to most writers, I must assume, or they try to research a given background on sabbatical. Not for me. I write about places I've lived long before I ever set pen to paper.

You do not always have to be producing, creating, harvesting. Learn to be idle. Learn to rest.

If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant.

I'm very good at having time off. I tend to take whole years off - I had 1994 and 1997 off. I find it very easy; I just love pottering around doing normal things.

You're not? A woman doesn't take a sabbatical from men if she hasn't been hurt by one real badly.