Quotes About Vocation

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.

Sometime I rap for the house. Sometime I rap live.

I'm somewhat old-fashioned, and I still talk about playing a part. I don't talk about my work - 'I've seen some of your work' - there's not much work in it, is there?

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

In karaoke, you don't choose the song; the song chooses you.

I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

We're in soul business here.

Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.

example: I have five boys. I will make Billy a clergyman; John a lawyer; Tom a doctor, and Dick a farmer. He then goes into town and looks about to see what he will do with Sammy. He returns

WRONG SELECTION OF A VOCATION. No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. The most essential step in the marketing of personal services is that of selecting an occupation into which you can throw yourself wholeheartedly.

but I am free to choose a profession where I am not a slave to external pressure.

Just like some guys can't taxi or pimp or hustle dope, most guys, and gals too, can't be postal clerks.

The icky part was knowing I was in the presence of a woman so crazy that she thought her highest calling was to incubate encapsulated alien teratomas until they came squirting out of her body and walked around on their own legs. I have heard of some bizarre vocations in my life, but seldom anything quite so disgusting.

there is no gift to the world like a man doing what he enjoys.

I don't think about an industry or building things, but somebody says you're lucky if you find something you like to do, which is true, and then it's a miracle if you get paid to do it.

I feel like a lot of people have a hard time finding what they do, or they have a job or career and not a passion. That's miserable for me. Just find your purpose; understand that you have one life to live.

I realized mechanical engineering doesn't much lend itself to missionary work.

I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.

I am motivated to write because it is what I am meant to do. It is not a choice - it is what I am. I did not choose writing - it chose me. And I believe it is necessarily that way. Anyone doing this for some other reason should not be.

But as I'd learned my new trade at a deeper level, I'd discovered that I had not escaped the call to ministry as cleanly as I might have thought. I had not only followed my mother into the classroom but my father into the pulpit, never mind that I preached on weekdays instead of Sundays. There I was, pacing the lecture hall with chalk dust on my pants, day after day.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

Being a really evil bastard isn't just a job, it's a vocation!