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Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
Sep 29, 2025
A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic
I came out of retirement to run a start-up, Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.
It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time.
The scheduling thing is really weird with TV shows. Certain projects haven't been able to work out because of the schedule, so some of it is out of your control. You don't have very many opportunities. There isn't much time, so you want to make sure you're going to be doing something that you really feel good about or that you're going to have a good creative experience doing. You're taking up vacation time from your job, so you want it to be meaningful.
The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.
Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In contact with nature, a person rediscovers his correct dimension, rediscovers himself as a creature, small but at the same time unique, with a "capacity for God" because interiorly he is open to the Infinite.
Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop roller coasters. People pay money for that kind of experience. So I would certainly save up money, save several vacations worth of money, to go on a suborbital flight or any rocket flights.
I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.
Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans are how much vacation time they will have an how early they can retire and be supported by the state.
A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.
A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.
A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Babies don't need a vacation. But I still see them at the beach. It pisses me off.
On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.
What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
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