#calling

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. ↗

— James Bryant Conant

#based #calling #each #elite #excellence

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#calling #father #highest #medicine #mother

I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do. ↗

— Scott Foley

#enough #exactly #figure #growing #growing up

Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped. ↗

— Anita Hill

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The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us. ↗

— Viktor Yanukovych

#calling #convincing #everyone #forming #join

Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer? ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#anyone #appealing #calling #jerusalem #kings

I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of your lives is likely to be about, and that is, trying to ensure that you don't wake up at 32 or 35 or 40 tenured to a life that happened to you when you weren't paying strict attention, either because the money was good, or it made your parents proud, or because you were unlucky enough to discover an aptitude for the very thing that bores you to tears, or for any of the other semi-valid reasons people marshal to justify allowing the true passion of their lives to leak away. If you're lucky, you may have more than one chance to get things right, but second and third chances, like second and third marriages, can be dicey propositions, and they don't come with guarantees.... The question then is this: How does a person keep from living the wrong life? ↗

— Richard Russo

#chances #education #life #meaning #passion

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#books #calling #i #novels

I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality. ↗

— Sydney Carter

#christ #dances #heart #i #i see

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#calling #human #humanities #make #sense