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Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.
My desperation to be on the stage and perform was like a vocation, a religious calling.
Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is
Cherish your health, family, friends, and vocation for none of these things are permanent.
Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation.
Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.
Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
I have this problem - I don't have hobbies. Everything that's interesting becomes a vocation.
I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe.
You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.
Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.
Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.
Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.
Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.
In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.
Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.
I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.
The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test your mettle.
One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.
I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means.
Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
I saw my father writing songs and he would include me in the process when I was little so that kind of sparked my interest for the vocation.
Fortunately, we Argentines have decided to change. We believe politics needs to be led by public servants with a vocation to give and construct.
Monaco has a vocation to embrace other cultures. Should this be forgotten, the European and American origins of my family are there to remind us.
Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.
Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way. It's such a fulfilling vocation. I love it.
The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.
It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever.
Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
What I've learnt is that being a midwife is not a job about cute babies. And as a maternity care assistant there's a lot of cleaning involved. It's a vocation.
I'm not necessarily in a vocation where I'm at risk; it's not like I'm a police officer. I'm a musician, so when I leave home, my family expects me to come back.