Quotes About Vocation

If any man loves the instruments of any craft, the gods have called him.

As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person I ever knew who looked upon childhood as a dishonorable vocation one grew out of as quickly as possible.

Fact 2: What is true about you as a person is also true about your work.

it is good that you are alive: your life is good, it is good that you are who you are, and it is good that you do the work you do.

To live is to find the thing that one does best, and then to do it thoroughly, and always. To do less than this is to never live at all.

I was gotten into an employment quite remote to my genius, and directly contrary to the life I delighted in

Research by Harvard's Howard Gardner, Stanford's William Damon, and Claremont's Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi zeroed in on what they call "good work," a potent mix of what people are excellent at, what engages them, and their ethics—what they believe matters.18 Those are more likely to be high-absorption callings: people love what they are doing. Full absorption in what we do feels good, and pleasure is the emotional marker for flow.

The single most important contribution education can make to a child's development is to help him toward a field where his talents best suit him, where he will be satisfied and competent.

Una investigación realizada por Howard Gardner, de Stanford, William Damon, de Harvard, y Csikszentmihalyi, de Claremont, se centró en lo que ellos llamaban un "buen trabajo", una combinación entre la ética (es decir, lo que uno cree que le gusta) y aquello en lo que destaca (es decir, lo que realmente le gusta).

For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played.

My true love is with amateur wrestlin;, that's where I was born. I've always wanted to wrestle.

From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

An education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries.

The Carpenter Shop

You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way.

She wasn't born for this kind of life. You have to be born for this like you have to be born a butcher or a barber, I guess. Wouldn't anybody be either of them just for money or fun.

in our Father's house are many mansions, and each of us must discover for himself the kind of religion and the amount of saintship which best comports with what he believes to be his powers and feels to be his truest mission and vocation.

For a fee, Vocation Vacations could arrange for you to spend a few days shadowing people who were living your dream. The jobs available for visit included cattle ranching, managing a bed-and-breakfast, owning a winery, and—there it was!—starting a bakery.I

Simon périssait de tristesse, c'est évident, mais en même temps, la vie qu'il menait, depuis si longtemps, cette vie d'ingénieur, j'ose à peine le dire, semblait parfaitement lui convenir. La prétendue vocation nous trompe tout le temps. J'en said quelque chose. On pense être fait pour telle chose. On est fait pour telle autre. Et encore, pas sûr.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

David was so filled with ecstasy at this glory-filled vocation (of the creation mandate) that he exclaimed in awe and wonder, "What is man that Thou art mindful of him?... For Thou hast made him a little lower than God, and crownest him with glory and honor... Thou hast put all things under his feet." To say that culture is man's calling in the covenant is only another way of saying that culture is religiously determined.