Quotes About Vacation From Work

#1. You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

Sendhil Mullainathan

#2. Entitlement is a foreign concept to me.

Vann Chow

#3. Life's short. Eat dessert first, work less and vacation MORE!!

Lea Mishell

#4. I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.

Richard D. Zanuck

#5. My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.

Ludacris

#6. Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless.

Rob Mariano

#7. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach. With anything, it's about finding the balance.

Bailey Chase

#8. If you go on vacation for one week, you'll come back to two weeks of work. If you go on vacation for two weeks, you'll come back to four weeks of work. If you go on vacation for three weeks, people seem to figure it out for themselves.

Paul Orfalea

#9. I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.

Rachael Ray

#10. a petition campaign called Work to Live. The goal of this movement was to pass a law that would increase American vacation time to three weeks after one year on the job, and to four weeks after three years.

Rolf Potts

#11. The idea of a perfect vacation is not working or not having to work and having no appointments.

Tom Welling

#12. Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.

Taylor Hawkins

#13. Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

Oscar Wilde

#14. So I got stuck doing make-up work during spring vacation. ...I guess things could have gotten worse. But I wasn't there to visit."
-Tokidoki

Shinobu Takayama

#15. Vacation is the break from work, but work is the break from Vacation.

Me

#16. My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.

Didi Conn

#17. It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.

Celine Dion

#18. Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.

Dana Plato

#19. Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.

B.C. Forbes

#20. I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

Peter Zumthor

#21. If there's a national-team player, he has to do extra work. He has to do extra weeks, and he can't go on vacation even if he says: 'Well, but I'm supposed now to have six weeks off.' If he comes and says that, then I give him a hug and say: 'Have fun the six weeks, but don't come back here.'

Jurgen Klinsmann

#22. The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you're on vacation.

Gautam Singhania

#23. A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.

Morris Fishbein

#24. There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.

Park Chan-wook

#26. Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Walter Annenberg

#27. I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.

Scott Adams

#28. Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?

Erwin W. Lutzer

#29. Work is my vacation from worry of what to do with my life

Janna Cachola

#30. I used to work out on an island called Martha's Vineyard. I ran a pizza oven, I caddied, I worked on a fishing boat, and life is very easy out there. It's a vacation lifestyle all the time.

Austin Stowell

#31. In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation.

Jason Calacanis

#32. I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

Elon Musk

#33. I usually work seven days a week and rarely take vacations, which is both lame and unsustainable. I don't mind the idea of writing seven days a week, I suppose. Getting some work done early in the morning. But ideally I would love to take one day a week off.

Brad Listi

#34. To work for the sheer joy of it, to wake up and be really excited on a Monday, to love what you do so much that the idea of a long vacation looks boring - that's living.

Manoj Arora

#35. I'm a very anti-vacation person. Because I'm always getting on planes for work, to me, a vacation is when I don't have to get on a plane.

Gilbert Gottfried

#36. If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.

Isaac Asimov

#37. Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

Susan Sontag

#38. I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.

Bailey Chase

#39. I don't believe the inner work ever really ends, and sometimes I'd like to take a vacation.

Debra Moffitt

#40. Vacations are not just about the two weeks you are away from work; they're also about the time you spend anticipating and imagining your trip, as well as the time after the trip when you get to replay special moments from your vacation in your mind.

Dan Ariely

#41. Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.

Gail Collins

#42. Walk away from anyone who is unduly focused on vacation and compensation. It's a sign of potential trouble. No matter how talented you are, if you don't really want to work at TOMS, you'll never work out here.

Blake Mycoskie

#43. I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.

Kathryn Hahn

#44. I moonlighted during a two-week vacation, doing a month's worth of work in two weeks; it almost killed me, but I wanted to stretch my muscles and the letter from the producer says, "Your storyboarding is Eisensteinian," referring to the famous Russian filmmaker.

Mike Royer

#45. I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.

Ashley Tisdale

#46. I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

Elizabeth Pena

#47. I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.

Rex Stout

#48. Be an experimental person. Break up fixed routines. Expose yourself to new restaurants, new books, new theaters, new friends; take a different route to work someday, take a different vacation this year, do something new and different this weekend.

David J. Schwartz

#49. After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Kenneth Grahame

#50. Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.

Vito Fossella

#51. A vacation is three times more work without the payment.

Debasish Mridha

#52. Every time you work on a project, it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours. That's the thing - it replenishes you to do something else.

Joss Whedon

#53. I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#54. Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.

Ravi Zacharias

#55. The difference nowadays is that when I go on vacation I work some of the time rather than all of the time.

Nick Saban

#56. You're not on vacation, Bluelick. No sitting still while I do all the work. I'm going to give you my tongue again. This time I expect you to use it. We're going right to the edge, but not over. Understand?

Samanthe Beck