Quotes by Sabbatical If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go? David Whyte sabbatical mind years 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. J. Cole sabbatical flair thinking 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. Khaled Hosseini sabbatical book years Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical. Mark Driscoll sabbatical study soldier We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it. Nigel Lawson sabbatical had-enough parliament My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business. Norman Granz sabbatical juice records Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you. Shirley Geok-lin Lim sabbatical writing mean