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#vocation

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For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#creativity #nietzsche #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

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

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.


Parker J. Palmer


#life #life-plan #vocation #life

Calling resists privatization by insisting on the totality of faith. Calling resists politicization by demanding a tension with every human allegiance and association. Calling resists polarization by requiring an attitude toward, and action in, society that is inevitably transforming because it is constantly engaged. Grand Christian movements will rise and fall. Grand campaigns will be mounted and grand coalitions assembled. But all together such coordinated efforts will never match the influence of untold numbers of followers of Christ living out their callings faithfully across the vastness and complexity of modern society.


Os Guinness


#calling #gospel #movements #vocation #work

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.


Larry Flynt


#politics #vocation

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.


Michael Haneke


#conceived #different #feel #films #funny

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

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.


Daniel Day-Lewis


#felt #i #power #strongly #very

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






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