Sabbatical Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Sabbatical Quotes from famous authors such as Nigel Lawson, John Ortberg, Kate Pierson, Simon Rattle, Rick Moranis. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

1
We already have a sabbatical system. It’s called opposition, and I’ve had enough of it.
Nigel Lawson
2
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
3
In the late ’90s, we kind of took a sabbatical, and I got an invitation to play with a Japanese band and formed a supergroup called NiNa. It was Yuki from Judy and Mary and Masahide Sakuma from The Plastics, a Japanese equivalent of the B-52s. It went to No. 1 in Japan.
Kate Pierson
4
Some of my favorite music in the world is Haydn. I had a sabbatical one year and made myself one promise: to play a different Haydn piano sonata each day – they are inexhaustible treasures.
Simon Rattle
5
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
6
I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.
Jim Diamond
7
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.
Lawrence Osborne
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
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.
KT Tunstall
10
Each actor is different and not everyone is looking for the same thing. For instance, I have never worried that people have to think of me in a certain way or have to accept me when I return to screen after a sabbatical.
Ayesha Takia
11
After taking a two-year sabbatical to spend time with my wife and travel the world, I’m excited to join the Twitter Board and help the company advance its mission.
Patrick Pichette
12
During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.
Ricky Martin
13
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.
Arbaaz Khan
14
My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
Norman Granz
15
An important impression was my father’s one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.
Philip Warren Anderson