#calling

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing. ↗

— Ronald Heifetz

#careers #jobs #vocation #change

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#because #britain #calling #competition #complete

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#calling #countrymen #failed #good #good opinion

For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow. ↗

— Emma Caulfield

#calling #contribute #doing #feeling #had

Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#box #calling #calling card #card #day

But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way. ↗

— Peter Davison

#calling #certain #dangerous #free #freedom

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments. ↗

— Edmond H. Fischer

#enjoy #here #i #luck #most

A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#calling #get #go #here #job

Everybody else is calling this 'Reggie's Team' and that's fine with me. It's just another challenge I have to face, and I look forward to it. ↗

— Reggie Lewis

#calling #challenge #else #everybody #everybody else