Quotes About Vocation

The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.

Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

Il faut suivre ta boussole [You must follow your compass], as we say in French. Do what feels right to you, then figure out how to earn a living at the same time.

The whole project of science," she explains, "is to crush any notion of powerful nonhuman Others," and the vocation of the scientist is "to keep all that was uncanny or unspeakable stuffed out of sight.

You don't need to wait another day to figure out your calling. You're living it, dear one. Your gifts have a place right now, in the job you have, in your stage of life, with the people who surround you. Calling is virtually never big or famous work; that is rarely the way the kingdom comes. It shows up quietly, subversively, almost invisibly. Half the time, it is unplanned—just the stuff of life in which a precious human steps in, the good news personified.

As children, Grace and I liked to pretend our life was a movie projected onto a giant screen before an audience who watched, rapt, as we ate our pork chops and finished our homework and went to sleep side by side in our twin beds, Grace rising to shut the closet door if I left it open. Gradually, mysteriously, that fantasy evolved into a vocation--I came to imagine my future not in terms of anything I might do or accomplish, but the notoriety that would follow.

Si vous me demandez ce que je viens faire en ce monde, moi artiste, je vous répondrai: je viens vivre tout haut.

I did realise that this job was too grim for most people, all the stinking and leaking and dying. Mine was a peculiar vocation.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

Yo creo que uno puede llegar a hacer dinero en cualquier profesión. Elije tu carrera mirando con cuidado tus intereses, tu vocación, tu perfil de personalidad y tus habilidades.

Love is a career with its own stages, rewards, and failures . . . a vocation as concrete as a calling in the Church, worth giving a lifetime to.

My teaching was primarily focused on making, it wasn't about the pounds, shillings and pence. I remember being in college and being in business and there was just a weekend in between.

I decided to give up the idea of being a priest before I decided I wanted to be an actor. I considered it for a couple of weeks, really. I'm a young Catholic, do you know what I mean. You're going to consider it.

I was always talking in weird voices from the time I was two. I guess I just found a way to keep doing it! I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes... but most of it is just the same stuff I was doing as a kid!

Promoting dependency is the Democratic Party's vocation. It knows that almost all entitlements are forever, and those that are not - e.g., the lifetime eligibility for welfare, repealed in 1996 - are not for the middle class.

Honest, simple work for young people is essential to their well-being.

I was too practical to want to be a painter.

I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.

I've done admin work, preaching and teaching, youth ministry, marital counseling, etc.

I became aesthetically obsessed with language. And 'literary artist' - poet and novelist - is a calling. You are called to it the way preachers are called to preaching the gospel.