Career Quote by Elvis Costello

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

— Elvis Costello

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

— Anne Rice

My vocation to preach on paper.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

And so, irritants, it is with this that I leave you. You are spared so that you can think of what it really is…

— Jhonen Vasquez

The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.

— George Meany

Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.

— Gail Godwin

Any time I think out loud, 'I can't believe this is my job,' and remember I am a very lucky duck. Whether marshalling hundreds…

— Steven Soderbergh

Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

— Mother Teresa

A vocation is the backbone of life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

— Edward Carpenter

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room…

— Kevin Spacey