Quotes About Vocation

are there periods of history for which work, vocation, and spirituality were mutually supportive aspects of life:

Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.

The pilot episode of Bayou Brethren was a major disappointment, the visual appeal of high-def hog shit having been overestimated by a network vice president who was summarily promoted to a more harmless position. The new network vice president in charge of the project felt the brothers needed a more esoteric vocation to distract from their unappealing personalities, a view shared by potential advertisers who had screened the off-putting pilot.

I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did.

I am a better journalist than I am a businessman.

If I had been a bricklayer I'd still have been a journeyman.

As a journeyman singer, I have to go to where the work is.

I just kind of figured that the marine biology would be a career, and the art would be something I did for my own self-expression.

I just kind of fell into acting.

I never wanted to be an actor. It was just something that happened.

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

Fighting's not me - it's just something that I do.

I'm against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.

I was directing before I knew it was called that.

I never became a cowboy or baseball player, and now I'm beginning to wonder if I ever really became a writer. I find that I hesitate to put that label on myself, to define myself by what I do for a living.

I knew that manual labor wasn't the career for me.

I really knew with every fiber of my being that acting was - for lack of a better word - my calling.

The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.

If we have been given the vocation and grace to die with Christ then the everyday and banal occurrence which we call human death has been elevated to a place among God's mysteries.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.

What greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?