#vocation

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

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#development #education #health #inmate #job

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#involves #love #test #vocation

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed. ↗

— Mary Gordon

#great #vocation #waiting

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#creativity #teaching #vocation #art

How lucky, I thought, were people who had known from earliest childhood what they wanted to do. All the children in my grammar school, who said they wanted to be doctors, had grown up to become doctors. This was also the case apparently with firemen, veterinarians, songwriters, and race car drivers. I had opted for a kind of pure experience, which, as Doo-Wah had pointed out, is not usually something you get paid for. I did not want to write a book about it. I did not want to write so much as an article. I wanted to be left alone with my experience and go on to the next thing, whatever that was. ↗

— Laurie Colwin

#laurie-colwin #vocationon #experience

Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same. ↗

— Richard Mitchell

#reasoning #thinking #training #vocation #education

We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do. ↗

— Theodore Guerin

#service #vocation #inspirational