Quotes About Career

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.

I'm a big believer in the student-athlete part. I value the education and what it provides for you. Football is a vocation. Only 1.67 percent of these athletes go on to the NFL. An education provides you an opportunity for a career. A lot of people just don't get that. To say they aren't getting anything is misinformed.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.

Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

Being a model, you know, it's a short-lived vocation.

My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.

I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.

II'm quite a successful musician, but I'm not sure if it's my vocation.

A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college.

I think it's a falsehood to think you can have some kind of plan. Acting isn't like that, it's more vocational, I think.

We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.

With nearly all students leaving public high school having taken some vocational education, this bill continues to provide communities with the funding necessary to give students an edge on career training.

By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.

When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I really admire and whose work I really admire were English and English trained. I felt there was a real vocational feel to work in the U.K.

Long before my days at ESPN, the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' or the 'New York Daily News' before that, I was a student at Thomas A. Edison Vocational and Technical High.

If someone chooses a vocational route, why do they not get the same respect in society as someone who just does a pure academic route?

I went to a vocational high school, which is where they basically train you to go out and dig ditches. You gotta learn a trade. Well, why do you gotta learn a trade? Because you're not smart enough to go to college. That was the underlying gist of it.

John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.

My dream jobs would be Italian 'Vogue' and anything with Chanel!

At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream.