#vocation

Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation. ↗

— Rick Warren

#call #country #first #military #military service

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#arrival #elevation #fact #itself #life

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum. ↗

— Philip Greenspun

#computer science #curriculum #easier #formal #get

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#any #continued #i #love #out

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy. ↗

— Neil Simon

#comedy #degrees #fact #generally #get

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#cannot #carry #concrete #demands #everyone

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement. ↗

— Ang Lee

#movie #provocation #really #statement

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#because #consider #desire #despise #go

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#gradually #hobbies #just #sort #vocation

The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that "to work is to pray." (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#prayer #vocation #work #art