Quotes About Vocation

I am a lawyer by profession.

I feel like I have a lot of dedication to the acting profession.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.

I've never considered selling anything other than profession, but it's more than that. It's one of the highest callings that you can aspire to. Not everyone can do it.

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor? Too dirty! Air-hostess? Maybe not! Then someone gave me a book on Roger Vivier, and, cheri, instantly I knew that was it!

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

I have a lot of respect for what I do, for this profession.

I would have loved to study medicine, but I was lucky to have come into the profession that I loved. I may not have been very good at it, but I loved it.

Acting is only my profession.

I want to be a professional.

I could never really decide what I wanted to be when I grew up, and for a while, I thought that maybe I wanted to be a writer... I've always loved to write, that form of expression.

I'm lucky to have fallen into this trade, and I'm still fighting to stay in it.

Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

Then I thought I was going to be a photographer. I tried a hand at darkroom technician. I played in a band. It took me quite some time to discover that I wanted to write.

But yield who will to their separation,My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight.Only where love and need are one,And the work is play for mortal stakes,Is the deed ever really doneFor Heaven and the future's sakes.

She couldn't understand a vocation. Some people can't; at best, work's about status and pay cheques for them, it hasn't got value in itself.

She couldn't understand a vocation. Some people can't; at best, work's about status and paychecks for them, it hasn't got value in itself.

The great asset of a broad liberal arts education, as I know it, is that it does not have much bearing on any vocation in particular but has great relevance to all vocations in general—provided that the college environment within which it is carried out is accepted as real, as real as any chapter in one's life, and provided that an explicit effort is made to prepare students to serve and be served by the present society, using the college experience as the working laboratory.

You cannot get them to talk of politics so long as they are well employed