#vocation

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

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#does #find #function #genuine #height

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#path #something #vocation #you #your

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#desire #doing #enough #good #i

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#unhappiness #vocation #writing

He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#god-s-will #vocation #catholicism

J'ai lu quelque part que la mort était une société secrète...Ce qui n'est qu'une fin, un pis-aller, et c'est peu dire, pour la plupart des êtres, ne peut-il devenir pour d'autres une vocation? - Quelquefois, et jamais autant que ce soir, je me le suis demandé. Et - comme toutes les vocations - contagieuse. ↗

— Julien Gracq

#vocation #death

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

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift. ↗

— Mavis Gallant

#began #done #dream #father #fear