Quotes About Vocation

Put it this way: singing is not my day job.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

I've always known that singing was some sort of calling for me. It comes naturally.

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.

I love teaching. I wouldn't take a job that didn't include it.

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

Acting is not just something I love but a part of who I am.

I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.

There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

The Seaman's Practice

La chose la plus importante à toute vie est le choix d'un métier : le hasard en dispose.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

But if you are going to take up a profession – and I cannot see why you should want one at all, now that you have come into your property – surely you can chuse something better than magic! It has no practical application.

Even the apostles were tentmakers...

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.   I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

morrer é uma arte, como tudo o mais. nisso sou excepcional. desse jeito faço parecer infernal. desse jeito faço parecer real. vão dizer que tenho vocação

must become (since I could not be a nun) a consecrated single woman. Now if I were inclined to a career as a lawyer or journalist that would be all right.

To be a 'ruined man' is itself a vocation.