Quotes About Avocation

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

Over the years, my work became both my vocation and avocation. Since I enjoyed it so much, I never felt a great need to go outside for relaxation. Nevertheless, I became an avid photographer and traveler. Possibly my love for travel stems from the early years when my family seldom went away on vacation.

You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination.

My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.

Becoming serious is a grievous fault in hobbyists. It is an axiom that no hobby should either seek or need rational justification. To wish to do it is reason enough. To find reasons why it is useful or beneficial converts it at once from an avocation into an industry - lowers it at once to the ignominious category of an 'exercise' undertaken for health, power, or profit. Lifting dumbbells is not a hobby. It is a confession of subservience, not an assertion of liberty.

I actually don't like playing the piano or conducting the orchestra.

A man should have a hobby. It keeps him out of trouble. -Madeleine Pilaster

The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.

But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight.

But yield who will their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes.

But yield who will to their separation,My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight.Only where love and need are one,And the work is play for mortal stakes,Is the deed ever really doneFor Heaven and the future's sakes.

I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby!

I don't really like the word 'hobbies.'

I'm not a good golfer. I don't have any hobbies, really.

I don't really have any hobbies.

The music stuff is just a hobby.

I drive something different every day. It's just my hobby.

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

The amateur plays for fun. The professional plays for keeps. To the amateur, the game is his avocation. To the pro it's his vocation.

One's 'thing'--(1) A point of personal interest; a hobby, sport, or avocation that succinctly defines a person. (2) A brief coupling of words used to evoke someone's personality in a small-talk setting: Billy's thing used to be soccer; now it's masterbation. (3) A laconic summation of one's character and interests used for the purpose of categorization and judgement. See also 'What do you do?

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

A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.

What you want to do as a living and get paid for, others want to do as a hobby and for free.