J. Cole
Rapper, songwriter
"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."
Sabbatical quotes
Sabbatical
7 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Poet, Novelist
"Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you."
Khaled Hosseini
Author, Physician
"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."
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