Quotes About Vocation

You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!

In my view, the amateur does not love the game enough. If he did, he would not pursue it as a sideline, distinct from his "real" vocation.

The amateur plays for fun. The professional plays for keeps. To the amateur, the game is his avocation. To the pro it's his vocation.

THE ARTIST'S LIFE Are you a born writer?

You become an artist once you start saying that you are an artist

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. If we were born to paint, it's our job to become a painter. If

The professional loves it so much he dedicates his life to it. He commits full-time.

If we were born to paint, it's our job to become a painter.

what ails you and me has nothing to do with being sick…What ails us is that we are living our lives as amateurs. The solution…is that we turn pro.

Most valuable art in our time has been experienced by audiences as a move into silence (or unintelligibility or invisibility or inaudibility); a dismantling of the artist's competence, his responsible sense of vocation—and therefore as an aggression against them. Modern

wanted to say that Marie's vocation must have been pretty shaky to start with, but it would have sounded heartless. And Rose was living with the truth as she believed

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

He hablado en muchas partes de la impresión que me produjo esa lectura (el Ulises), pues la novela de Joyce fue algo mucho más importante y decisivo que una mera influencia: fue la Epifanía a de una vocación.

Pero el sacerdocio, dottora, es una carrera de fondo.

Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me. I was just inherently funny when I was a kid.

I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.

The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realised it he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers. It

el hombre no es capaz de comprenderse a sí mismo hasta el fondo sin Cristo. No se puede entender quién es, ni cuál es su verdadera dignidad, ni cuál sea su vocación, ni su destino final. No se puede comprender todo esto sin Cristo»[60

Fue el éxito de este curita pedigüeño haberse dejado llevar por su instinto, su espíritu limosnero, con el cual coincidía con lo más natural y consustancial de este país damnificado y mendicante, su vocación de pedir, que viene de lejos: cuando yo nací ya Colombia había perdido la vergüenza.

If some of those who listen to our sermons reject the message, that is not our worry - as long as it is truly the kerygma that we preach, and not some feeble imitation of it. Rejection is built into the vocation of the preacher. But hear this: The incarnate Word of God is a mighty sword put into your hand. Those who hear it will feel their chains cut off, their prison unlocked, their lungs filled with oxygen:

Peacemaking is a noble vocation . . . To be a peacemaker, you must know the Peace-Giver.

God has a wonderful plan for the second half of your life: to allow you to serve him by doing what you like to do and what you are good at.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

Education is not a thing apart from life—not a "system," nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.