I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. And that's why, when I say… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“The wall sawyer did not ask the little queen what she did. This was because in the little queen’s kingdom, people only… — Meia Geddes Copy Share Image
Life is so very short. Do now what you yearn to do in your life. You do not have to 'quit your… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
More than we care about their "success," vocation, or financial status, our hearts will be encouraged when our kids are faithful followers… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues… — Leon Botstein Copy Share Image
Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized.' In a number of cases, nations once rich in faith and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
My proposal is not that we understand what the word ‘god’ means and manage somehow to fit Jesus into that. Instead, I… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I was a stay-at-home mom, with an important job to raise the kids. I filled it into the occupation slot on innumerable… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
Once I asked my counsellor for advice about my vocation. I asked, 'How can I know if God is calling me and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure -… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
“Cordelia: I hope I've got a vocation. Charles: I don't know what that means. Cordelia: It means you can be a nun.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
“Our vocation is not something we do for God- which would put the burden on us to perform and achieve. Instead, it… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“He prayed for the recovery of that inward privacy which the purpose of his vigil demanded that he seek: a clean parchment… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
“At its core, each vocation is a particular, unique instantiation of the father’s summons to the true homeland of the kingdom. The… — Mark Doherty Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
I have been fortunate to work in places where people have a passion for their work. At HHS the passion sort of… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“The vocation of every Christian is to live as a follower of Jesus today. In every aspect of life, in small and… — Mark Labberton Copy Share Image
I only auditioned at four schools. I started performing and studying when I was in middle school, and then as I got… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
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