Sabbatical Quotes

• 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

  Travel, Kids, Airports

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

  Norman Granz

  Juice, Records, Needed

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

  Nigel Lawson

  Had Enough, Parliament, Opposition

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• La acumulación de deudas personales y colectivas en Estados Unidos y Europa debería haber enviado señales de alarma a cualquiera que esté familiarizado con las instituciones bíblicas de los años sabáticos y jubilares, creadas específicamente por el peligro de que la gente se viera atrapada por las deudas.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Biblical, America, Should Have

  "Rediscovering Religious Values in the Market Economy" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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

  Ricky Martin

  Song, Years, Two

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• 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

  Years, Mind, Ifs

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• I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated, every slight imperfection a new delicacy.

  Lydia Almuerzo

  Reflection, Glasses, Mirrors

  Lydia Lunch (1997). “Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary”, Creation Publishing Group

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

  Mark Driscoll

  Soldier, Study, Missions

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• 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

  Thinking, Flair

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• My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, like from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the night in very austere circumstances. I think then my practice became less superficial, more like the traditional definition of what meditation was: to truly find oneness.

  Karan Bajaj

  Morning, Yoga, Night

  Fuente: www.edgemagazine.net

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• 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

  Reality, Russia, Suffering

  Fuente: www.vanityfair.com

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• In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that year, I was not done with my book, and had to in effect resign from work. I did. I never went back.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Libro, Años, Hecho

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Mean, Occasions

  "Caminando con su musa: Entrevista con Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, volumen 8, número 2, 1 th Of July de 2014, páginas 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. 22 de junio de 2013.

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