Time Off Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Struggle, Artist, Vacation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.

  Christina Perri

  Taken, School, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I took a long time off to have my baby and spend time with my family.

  Kelly Preston

  Baby, Long, My Family

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• 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

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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• 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

  Jobs, Taken, People

  "A Minute With: Evan Rachel Wood on 'Ides of March'". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Moderation is the key so I work certain amout of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Keys, Moderation, Certain

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• 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

  Humor, Land, Lunch

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• Hardworking men and women deserve not only job security, but also a paycheck when they need to take time off to care for a loved one.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Jobs, Men, Needs

  "It’s Time For Paid Family and Medical Leave to Empower Working Women and Modernize the Workplace" by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been refreshed emotionally and intellectually. Their effectiveness in their job has probably improved, and they are, generally speaking, better employees for the time off.

  Bobby Fischer

  Jobs, Tired, Vacation

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• 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

  Sports, Art, School

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• 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

  Fun, People, Different

  "For The Record: Quick News On Justin Timberlake, Xzibit, Ja Rule, Michael Jackson, Jamie Lynn Spears & More". www.mtv.com. April 15, 2005.

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• After we finished touring 'Ignore The Ignorant' we had this perfect idea that we were going to take a couple of years off, that was the plan. Because we thought we were definitely going to take time off, I was going to go back to college, that was what I was going to do. Because the whole idea of it was that I have spent ten years in this band and not even realised that that amount of time has passed.

  Ryan Jarman

  Couple, College, Years

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Brain

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• Balance is a tricky thing. I love my work and that helps. And I work a lot. So I spend a fair amount of time trying to make sure I'm taking time off, exercising, meditating and things like that. I also have a powerful support team (including my partner, Kelley) to keep me grounded. I don't always feel like I have the balance I want, but I have awareness about it, which I think is key.

  Steven C. Harper

  Powerful, Team, Exercise

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• 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

  Kids, Opportunity, Long

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• I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.

  Bill Pullman

  Trying, Remember, Projects

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• 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

  Couple, Littles, Unexpected

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• 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

  Lonely, Writing, Long

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• When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Girlfriend, Hard Times, Past

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• I always thought that it's important to have other things, not just work, and I often even suggested my managers take some time off and come back fresh and ready to fight again.

  Ernesto Bertarelli

  Fighting, Important, Ready

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• A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.

  Heinrich Böll

  Children, Order, Principles

  Heinrich Böll (1965). “The clown”, Avon Books

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• I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Passion, Gardening, Adore

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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