Quotes About Sabbatical

#1. This is the funniest book I've ever held in my hands.
Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize winning humorist and author says about Radical Sabbatical

Dave Barry

#2. An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

Philip Warren Anderson

#3. I don't like to think of it as being fired. Instead, I prefer to think of it as being on indefinite leave with a sabbatical flair.

J. Cole

#4. We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.

Nigel Lawson

#5. I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity.

John Ortberg

#6. I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you'll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check.

Madonna Ciccone

#7. If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go?

David Whyte

#8. I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical.

Maxine Kumin

#9. During a sabbatical he learned enough biology to make a small but genuine contribution to geneticists' understanding of mutations in DNA.

James Gleick

#10. Time cannot permeate this sabbatical. We do not stay dead long.

David Mitchell

#11. Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.

Mark Driscoll

#12. My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

Norman Granz

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

Jim Diamond

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

Ricky Martin

#15. He provides the example of a philosopher who puzzles about the reality of time, but who nonetheless applies for a research grant to work on the philosophical problem of time during next year's sabbatical - without doubting the reality of next year's arrival.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#16. 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.

Rick Moranis

#17. 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.

Jonathan Sacks

#18. I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Tony Robbins

#19. I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.

John Lydon

#20. Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?

Saint John Chrysostom

#21. Sycorax has grown into a hoop

William Shakespeare

#22. It was dark and raining, with bad visibility, but this was Jersey, and we don't slow down for anything.

Janet Evanovich

#23. Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.

Mao Zedong

#24. When she finished, no one clapped or even breathed, for they were still inside that sacred place that music can sometimes create.

Mary Doria Russell

#25. Often we are identified with either the inner man or woman, while the other side is hidden and unexpressed. Outer relationships are a mirror of the relationship and communication between our own inner man and female side. Sometimes one side is dominant, while the other side is submissive.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#26. Lust shouts. Love whispers. Only the heart knows the difference.

Jan Hurst-Nicholson

#27. Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Theodor Adorno

#28. We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

James Anthony Froude

#29. As every married person here knows, love is a rotten substitute for respect.

Kurt Vonnegut

#30. It's important to be honest enough about your work, and the areas in which you can improve. I'm still learning every day and I'm still Hungry to create more and better work, hence the name.

Rankin

#31. Death is not too high a price for this - This taste of heaven -

Friedrich Schiller

#32. He longed for that year right after the injury, before he met Andy, when it seemed that everything might be improved upon, and that his future self might be something bright and clean, when he knew so little but had such hope, and faith that his hope might one day be rewarded.

Hanya Yanagihara