Quotes About Vocation

I was very good at math and physics. And that's all. I can't do music, art, so there was not a lot of choice for me. I think people should go with their strength and that was my strength.

As a senior in high school, I had a strong sense that God wanted me in some kind of ministry.

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

I didn't think I'd be playing football at 31 so it's a blessing just to be able to come out here and compete.

If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.

Now let's move a little deeper into the concept of Genius, and in particular, how it applies to your work. Your area of Genius is the specific point where what you enjoy doing most intersects with what you do best. This is where you are capable of making the greatest contribution in the world. Excellence is inevitable once you find this Genius.

path that chose me (no one chooses shamanism – shamanism tends to choose us!).

When a student comes and asks, Should I become a mathematician? the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

We all need to be aware of our personal calling. What is a personal calling? It is God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend.

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.

Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy best apparel on?

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.