Vacation Quotes - Page 26

• Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time.

  Bill Gates

  Family, Time, Kids

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". INterview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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• Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.

  Stephen Covey

  Happiness, Heart, Games

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• When all else fails, take a vacation.

  Betty Williams

  Failing, When All Else Fails

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• Travel brings power and love back into your life.

  Rumi

  Travel, Adventure, Optimistic

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• My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.

  Nina Arianda

  Ocean, Favorite Places, My Favorite

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• We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.

  David Platt

  Retirement, Taken, Eye

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• Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Memories, Forgotten

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• We should focus on what people get done, not on how many hours or days worked. Just as we don't have a nine-to-five policy, we don't need a vacation policy.

  Richard Branson

  People, Focus, Needs

  "Richard Branson: Unlimited Vacation Time Makes Sense in a Post Clock-Punch Economy" by Michael Howard, www.esquire.com. September 29, 2014.

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• I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

  Raymond Chandler

  Country, Home, Gun

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.100, Vintage

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• 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

  Hard Work, Love Is, Working It

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jan 06, 2014

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• I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Thinking, Cities

  Interview with Ali Trachta, www.laweekly.com. August 27, 2012.

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• Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Travel, Book, Thinking

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• And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.

  Tim Wise

  Struggle, Justice, Battle

  Tim Wise (2013). “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”, p.270, Soft Skull Press

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• Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.

  Jonathan Clements

  Running, Retirement, Vegas

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• Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.  Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence.  Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

  Maya Angelou

  Peace, Jobs, Past

  "Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now". Book by Maya Angelou, www.politico.com. 1993.

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• 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

  Growing Up, Cells, Sky

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

  Buddy Guy

  Mind, Mouths

  Song: Your Mind Is On Vacation

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• This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

  Shana Alexander

  Love, Holiday, Astonishment

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Home, Adventure, People

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.94, Pushkin Press

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• A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Travel, Writing, Thinking

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• Live your passion. What does that mean, anyway? It means that when you get up for work every morning, every single morning, you are pumped because you get to talk about or work with or do the thing that interests you the most in the world. You don’t live for vacations because you don’t need a break from what you’re doing—working, playing, and relaxing are one and the same. You don’t even pay attention to how many hours you’re working because to you, it’s not really work. You’re making money, but you’d do whatever it is you’re doing for free.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Morning, Passion, Mean

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2009). “Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Clouds, Mind, Living On

  Song: Backseat Freestyle

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• So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as a family. You walk in recollecting long romantic dinners, nights at the theater, and care-free vacations. You leave worrying about where to get diapers, milk, and Cheerios.

  Scott Simon

  Couple, Night, Worry

  Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.9, Random House

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• Travel not only stirs the blood. . . It also gives strength to the spirit.

  Florence Prag Kahn

  Blood, Giving, Spirit

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• For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Single, Divorce

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