Quotes About Vocation

Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.

I'll continue working as long as people want to hire me.

So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.

Music feels like a six sense to me, and it's never been just a hobby. It's something that I have to do to breathe. It's an extension of who I am.

People say that I should never turn my hobby into a career, but I think you need to be passionate enough to do a good job.

I never wanted to be an actress. I wanted to go into the medical professional. Acting was not important enough. That was a hobby - nothing to do with what you did in life.

I just enjoy playing hockey obviously.

When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that.

I was starting to do well at building homes and things like that. That interested me a lot as well. So I was debating whether to go do that full time or not.

I have to say, I feel a weird sort of calling in filmmaking that I didn't feel with other things. I feel like there are things in life you want to do, and then things you are called to do, and hopefully you can allow yourself to want to do whatever you're called to do.

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

Rather than the reflective theology of the scholar or classroom, his is a "task theology," the theologizing that takes place in the marketplace

A writer's knowledge of himself, realistic and unromantic, is like a store of energy on which he must draw for a lifetime: one volt of it properly directed will bring a character to life.

Words don't come very easily to me. Which, given my profession, is a worrying impediment.

A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace - you feel as though you're where you're meant to be.

Tony Bennett and me are all the same... and he's still singing. I don't know what else to do.

Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

We priests are in some ways a sad group of men. Born into the world to render service to mankind, there is no one more wretchedly alone than the priest who does not measure up to his task.

Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

I realized that what we do as professions affects how we act as people, big-time.

Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage.

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.