Top 100 Quotes About Time Off
#1. I'm not very good at time off. I'm happier when I'm working. It's something to do with not knowing what the next job is, so you appreciate it while it's there. I thrive on it, actually. But now I do it to please myself.
Emilia Fox
#2. I can't possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody's business and I'll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life.
Tina Fey
#3. I have no social life. There is no time for one. Once in a while I may go to dinner with a friend but that is it. However I am much happier travelling and being busy competing in both my sports than having time off.
Liz Halliday
#4. I am often criticized for spending too much time off the ice, but if you were in my shoes, you'd see how necessary it is.
Johnny Weir
#5. The thing about getting older is the injuries. You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.
Allen Johnson
#6. Just because you have kids doesn't mean to say you need time off. I have a lot of time off anyway. If I'm promoting my book, like, for the next two weeks, I'm flat out. But then I'm off again. And when you've got the next product, it's the same; you just condense it into a couple of weeks.
Katie Price
#7. I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.
Regis Philbin
#8. Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.
Dorothea Brande
#9. Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.
George H. W. Bush
#10. I'm going to do as much as I can with this life, and then I'm going to make sure to take some time off and be simple and ride my bike and hang out with friends.
Jill Scott
#11. Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
Meryl Streep
#12. That didn't surprise me; any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day. with no time off and no pay except room and board.
Elizabeth Peters
#13. I have as many pictures of my vocal cords as I do of my children. I have a great ear, nose and throat doctor, and we look at them - if there's some redness, maybe I'll take a little time off.
Anita Baker
#14. New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.
Georgina Chapman
#15. In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.
Josephine Tey
#16. In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.
Ilana Mercer
#17. To be honest, I haven't had a lot of time off.
Nancy O'Dell
#18. When I have time off, all I want to do is do nothing.
Niall Horan
#19. Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?
James B. Donovan
#20. To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.
Danica Patrick
#21. You go to school to get a job, and you get a job to take time off to do nothing. Why not do nothing to begin with?
Pierre Anthon
Janne Teller
#22. Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.
Alfred Hitchcock
#23. Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.
Jimmy Buffett
#24. I've had time off, and it drove me nuts. I was crawling up the wall.
Bob Newhart
#25. When we do get a little time off, I tend to watch movies, go to dinners, and keep it low-key.
Nina Dobrev
#26. A child ... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.
Heinrich Boll
#27. For an athlete, there's no time off ... until it's over.
Terry Bradshaw
#28. I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time off for good behavior.
Tana French
#29. I've been banking my holidays, which means I take time off later in the year. It makes it a lot easier to fit filming in; it can be quite challenging to study and film at the same time.
Bindi Irwin
#30. Take some time off to go within, in silence. With that, your charm becomes eternal, your love becomes unconditional & great strength arises.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#31. I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.
Scott Patterson
#32. Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.
Ginny Brown-Waite
#33. Time off from the news is always something I welcome.
Josh Radnor
#34. I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.
Elliott Smith
#35. I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really want to do, and it is. The only other job I'd want is to be a psychologist, as I spend most of my time analyzing people and emotions.
Evan Rachel Wood
#36. Somebody's helping you and you have to take time off to listen to them and pretend you think their ideas are great and come up with an answer that makes them feel good,
Robert B. Parker
#37. I encourage employers to permit their workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services to pray for our land.
George W. Bush
#38. Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.
Donna Summer
#39. Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.
Douglas Pagels
#40. I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun.
Jana Novotna
#41. I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.
Arsenio Hall
#42. To help break the cycle of domestic violence, we must allow survivors to take time off from work without fear of losing their job, to go to court, to see a doctor or to find a safe place to live.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#43. I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.
Jesse Eisenberg
#44. My position in the army is as sport instructor. This allows me generous time off for travel and competition. I also receive a monthly salary from the army.
Roman Sebrle
#45. It's fun, working with different people, everybody works differently. When I have time off from music, I want to make other music. That's what I do, that's what's fun, that's what makes me happy.
Chino Moreno
#46. Writers don't get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.
Graeme Roberts
#47. I was a jock, hardcore sports all the way down the line, but I heard that if you auditioned for this arts school, you got time off school, and that sounded good to me.
Jake Epstein
#48. Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.
Fred Savage
#49. Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.
Brad Bird
#50. I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.
Hillary Clinton
#51. I took some time off to enjoy my life, but figure skating is something I love and something I will continue doing for the rest of my life.
Oksana Baiul
#52. In the 1970s and early '80s, Shanghai was quiet, cautious, a ghost of a once-great city - and yet physically, little was changed from its glittering heyday. When visiting, I enjoyed reading books on local history and used my time off to scope out the former haunts of gangsters and jazzmen.
Nicole Mones
#54. I can have a whole year off. I'm really lucky because I'm my own boss, so I make the rules and get to choose when I take time off.
Sharleen Spiteri
#55. I took a long time off to have my baby and spend time with my family.
Kelly Preston
#56. Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.
Orson Scott Card
#57. I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and quiet of my family and being there and cooking for them. I love doing that. I also love doing leisure things. I ride horses. I love to shop. I love to drive!
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
#58. Racism, Dr. Sam. I worry for my kids about racism. Racism doesn't appear to take holidays or time off. What can I do about this stuff?
Allan Dare Pearce
#59. As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day. There are weeks I'm working and weeks I'm not. People think it must be great to have all that time off, but you'd be surprised how quickly that grass would become greener. The idle brain is the devil's playground.
Eric Lange
#60. You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.
Mario Andretti
#61. The United States is the only advanced economy that doesn't guarantee workers paid time off. Nearly one-quarter of all American workers get no paid vacation,
Brigid Schulte
#62. Honestly, I'm just consumed by the work. Everyday, I'm trying to come up with new stuff and do new things. I don't take time off. I'm always recording and working on my brand beyond just the music.
Wiz Khalifa
#63. I've never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I'd be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.
Ansel Elgort
#64. I wanted to draw and do costumes. I was prepared to train for that, but I needed something to do on my time off from high school, so I called an agent without telling anyone and started working with her.
Clemence Poesy
#65. I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to act. So I transferred to the Open University, because I could do it all online. By that point, I had admitted to myself that I had the acting bug.
Holliday Grainger
#66. No one is right when it comes to destination weddings. It's a big ask, requesting people take time off work and fly off to take a cruise just to see you get married.
Mallory Ortberg
#67. When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outlet for myself. My first two books were created during my pregnancies and after giving birth to my first child.
Josie Bissett
#68. If I have to spend a lot of time on planes, I try to think of this as time off. In certain ways, it's more restful than home: no Internet, no phones, no interruptions.
Margaret Heffernan
#69. I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.
Sarah Polley
#70. At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.
Saffron Aldridge
#71. Oversoul Seven grimaced at Cyprus and began the examination. 'Let's see,' he said, 'In Earth terms, using an analogy, I'm a man on Wednesday and Friday, a woman on Sunday and Thursday, and have the rest of the time off for independent study.
Jane Roberts
#72. Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
Karen O
#73. I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.
Oscar De La Renta
#74. However, although you might think this is the time of year to take some time off, you must never transgress one of the allotment rules: 'Thou shan't go on holiday in summer!
Mitchell Beazley
#75. People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.
Gail Devers
#76. I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.
Chris O'Donnell
#77. I just stopped reading a lot of books. I mean, I read books that I have to read for school, but I don't actually pick up a book and read for fun. On my time off, I go to movies, hang out with friends, go shopping ... just little things.
Mark Indelicato
#78. I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.
Todd Barry
#79. I'm very about football and very about my job, which doesn't get reported or won't get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That's I think what everybody else does, and that's what I should do.
Johnny Manziel
#80. The reality is that the overwhelming majority of women are working and they're going to be part of the labor force for a long time. While they may choose to take time off, they're doing things that women in '60s weren't doing.
Heather Boushey
#81. When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you've landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And, yes, I've had a few good meals.
Toby Jones
#82. When the season ends, I like to take a little time off from the diet I follow when I'm playing.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
#83. We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
Sammy Hagar
#84. Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.
Zaha Hadid
#85. Religion is having an intense attitude and no time off... religion is about those awful deep things.
Iris Murdoch
#86. I took a train to Liverpool. they were having a festival when I arrived. Citizens had taken time off from their busy activities to add crisp packets, empty cigarette boxes and carrier-bags to the other wise bland and neglected landscape.
Bill Bryson
#87. I go to sea every other month. The accident happened during my time off, so I'd better be cell phone again before my next tour or I'll be off work for another two months. Unless
Yrsa Sigurdardottir
#88. We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.
William J. Clinton
#89. Before I ever start a job that I'm really excited about, I usually have some sleepless nights or weeks or months. But that anticipation for a person like me ... I don't do so well with a lot of time off.
Lily Rabe
#90. I've always had service-industry jobs, because those were the easiest to quit or take time off from.
Wesley Schultz
#91. I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach.
Steven Millhauser
#92. I'm very awkward when I have time off. I don't know what to do with myself. It's weird not to work.
Ashton Kutcher
#93. I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.
Keith Jarrett
#94. I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.
Aidan Gillen
#95. Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.
Robert Kiyosaki
#96. The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.
Keith Miller
#97. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#98. When I get time off, my brain is just, that's it. I sit. I veg. People will think that I'm upset or not happy, but I'm just exhausted. I'm just zoned out.
Stephen Amell
#99. I didn't want to go on the DL. I want to keep pitching and competing. They decided it's better for me to take some time off and that's what we're going to do.
Johan Santana
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