Arvind Swami

I now have the experience of life and all I've seen. I came in when I was in my twenties and I wasn't prepared to be an actor. Then there was my sabbatical, my accident and I was single-parenting my kids. Your mind expands, you become mature and you feel liberated. I don't care about being conventional. I want to be daring.

Indian Actor

Lawrence Osborne

To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's not important to most writers, I must assume, or they try to research a given background on sabbatical. Not for me. I write about places I've lived long before I ever set pen to paper.

British Novelist

Divyanka Tripathi

Being a TV actor is quite different from being a movie star, and I always try and highlight my character. It is the reason why I am more inclined to taking frequent sabbaticals: so that when I return, people can identify with the character I play.

Indian Actress

John Ortberg

I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity.

American Clergyman

Arbaaz Khan

I had taken a bit of a sabbatical because I was producing and directing films. But acting has always been my passion and it is something that I will continue to do.

Akshaye Khanna

When someone like me takes a sabbatical, it leads to a few happy realisations. It was only when I was away that I realised how films are such a big part of my life.

KT Tunstall

I lived in L.A. for a year when I was four - my dad was doing a sabbatical at UCLA - so it always remained quite a familiar place.

Scottish Musician

Jim Diamond

I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.

American Musician

Nigel Lawson

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.

British Politician

Norman Granz

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

A sabbatical is usually a long, planned break, often lasting several months to a year.

Planned Duration

Sabbaticals are for personal growth or academic research, not just extended vacations.

Not Vacation

Sabbaticals are common in academia but can occur in other professional fields.

Academic Commonality

Getting a sabbatical often involves a special agreement or policy set by the employer.

Special Agreement

As an adjective, 'sabbatical' describes the purpose or nature of the break, not just any time off.

Not Just Time Off

When used adjectivally, 'sabbatical' often relates to taking time for academic research or learning.

Academic Research

 there was actually a lot of similarities, and so this helped validate our research method and show that actually, collecting passwords using these Mechanical Turk studies is actually a valid way to study passwords. So that was good news. Okay, I want to close by talking about some insights I gained while on sabbatical

Lorrie Faith Cranor:...

 long ago think I may have actually found an eye chart in the same air and I'm talking over a year and a half ago when I just before I left for a short one year sabbatical so I don't know if you guys can help jog my memory and confirm that that was the case because if it is it'll be really interesting to know that

Safari Live - Day 118 PIPE...

 What came out of it? I really got close to design again. I had fun. Financially, seen over the long term, it was actually successful. Because of the improved quality, we could ask for higher prices. And probably most importantly, basically everything we've done in the seven years following the first sabbatical

Stefan Sagmeister: The...

 I had a sabbatical. I said, "I'll write about my research, if there's no other way. And then I'll get to do my cookbook." So, I wrote a book on my research. And it turned out to be quite fun in two ways. First of all, I enjoyed writing. But the more interesting thing was that I started learning from people.

Are we in control of our...

 There were even these two NFL athletes who took a sabbatical from the league to do so. And as 30 Mosques was blossoming around the world, I was actually stuck in Pakistan working on a film. My codirector, Omar, and I were at a breaking point with many of our friends on how to position the film.

Bassam Tariq: The beauty...

 I've come up with this new mantra after coming back from a three-month sabbatical, which is rare for black women to take who are in leadership, but I felt it was really important for my leadership and for my team to also practice stepping back as well as also sometimes stepping in.

An interview with the...

 So he makes these interesting conversations about realism and mimicry and our drive to be fooled by great camouflage. The next artist is Hazel Clausen. Hazel Clausen is an anthropologist who took a sabbatical and decided, "You know, I would learn a lot about culture

Shea Hembrey: How I...

 the first week was absolutely you know it was chaotic with all of the stuff going on and I found for me being able to just think about okay if this lands up being some kind of forced sabbatical that I don't ask for but if that's what

How to be your best self...

 in Budapest, in Boston, and you can study it all over the world. A few years later, when I moved to Harvard first as a sabbatical, I became interested in another type of that time, the networks within ourselves,

The real relationship...

 They were still done when I was on sabbatical with my company in Indonesia. We can see the first part here was designed here by pigs. It was a little bit too funky,