Time Off Quotes - Page 5

I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else.

Bill Gates

Business, Powerful, Issues

Speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing robots too. They showed up and worked generation after generation; give them 3000 calories a day and a few amenities, a little time off, and a strong jolt of fear, and you could work them at almost anything. Give them some ameliorative drugs and you had a working class, reified and coglike.

Kim Stanley

Strong, Jobs, Class

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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

Law, Speech, Pay

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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

Taken, Awards, Careers

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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

Taken, School, Years

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For me, relaxing is going on a 10-mile hike. When I have time off, I like to be at home and spend time with my animals, and things like that.I'm not the girl that goes out for facials, and manicures and pedicures, all the time. I wish I did. It would be better for me, but I get annoyed.

Tricia Helfer

Girl, Home, Animal

Source: collider.com

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I’m actually taking advantage of my time off. You know, I had a film that was pushed, so I’m home spending time with my family, going to the gym and actually enjoying taking care of myself…This year has been great for me because I’ve learned how to relax. The last three years have been amazing but kind of crazy. So I don’t know, I feel grounded. I feel really good.

Eva Mendes

Crazy, Home, Years

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I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it now and I think I'm a better athlete because of that.

Libby Trickett

Sports, Athlete, Thinking

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.

Gary Barlow

Holiday, Awful, Good Times

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I've done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my game, working on the time off that I've had from the game, just getting myself prepared mentally and physically for the season.

Grant Hill

Basketball, Games, Everyday

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Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes.

Swami Vivekananda

Objects

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When I have time off, all I want to do is do nothing.

Niall Horan

Want

"'I'm home alone... except when Bieber pops round': 1D Niall admits he lives like a hermit when he's not with the band" by Ashleigh Rainbird, www.mirror.co.uk. September 14, 2012.

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Very sad, very upset, very glad I did not have to hear about this though Twitter. Probably going to be taking some time off it for a while.

Mara Wilson

Upset, Very Sad, Glad

Twitter post from Aug 11, 2014

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I don't feel quite normal if I haven't written for a while. I doubt I will ever again write anything as popular as the "Harry" books, but I can live with that thought quite easily. By the time I stop writing about Harry, I will have lived with him for 13 years, and I know it's going to feel like a bereavement. So I'll probably take some time off to grieve, and then on with the next book!

J. K. Rowling

Book, Writing, Grieving

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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

Reading, School, Forget Everything

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

School, Giving, Volunteer

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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

Jobs, Night, Months

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

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