Vocation Quotes - Page 12

• The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Men, Highest

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.99, Macmillan

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• Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.

  Sidney Lanier

  Writing, Soul, Trying

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• There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn’t this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?

  Vaclav Havel

  Intellectual, Doubt, Slumber

  "Words on Words" by Vaclav Havel, www.nybooks.com. January 18, 1990.

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• In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the outside in, but authority works from the inside out. . . . I am painfully aware of the times in my own teaching when I lose touch with my inner teacher and therefore with my own authority. In those times I try to gain power by barricading myself behind the podium and my status while wielding the threat of grades. . . . Authority comes as I reclaim my identity and integrity, remembering my selfhood and my sense of vocation.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Integrity, Teaching

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• Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Talent, Persons

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• Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!

  Marquis de Custine

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• When you're young, your perception of what it means to be a writer is often less about the writing and more about what seems to be the accompanying life: speeches and travel and hanging out with other writers. You think that when you get published, your life will clarify itself to you somehow. But when you don't get published until you're middle-aged you know who you are already, and your life expands to make room for your writing, rather than orbiting around it. You realize that there's no one way to be a writer, and that the job is less of an identity and more of a vocation.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

  Frederick Buechner

  Lying, Joy, Needs

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• There is a good look that I wear
  like a blood clot. I have
  sewn it over my left breast.
  I have made a vocation of it.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Blood, Looks

  Anne Sexton, “Again And Again And Again”

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• Very sacred is the vocation of the artist, who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching of creation to mankind. All honor to the man who treats it sacredly; who studies, as in God's presence, the thoughts of God which are expressed to him; and makes all things according to the pattern which he is ever ready to show to earnest and reverent genius on the mount.

  Jason 'J' Brown

  Teaching, Artist, Men

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• I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photographer, Trade, Professional Photographer

  Elliott Erwitt (1998). “Dog dogs”

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• Here, I think, is another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations - projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves- and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Thinking, Self, People

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Honor, Dignity

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

  Henry James

  Alarms, Might, Exciting

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• I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

  Dave Douglas

  Thinking, Musician, Want

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• If you serve a mission faithfully and well, you will be a better husband, you will be a better father, you will be a better student, a better worker in your chosen vocation. Love is of the essence of this missionary work. Selflessness is of its very nature. Self-discipline is its requirement. Prayer opens its reservoir of power.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Prayer, Husband, Father

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• Surely people can now see that it is no accident that he, Obama, sat at the feet of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, that he is mother was a leftist activist and cultural Marxist, that his main early mentor was radical Frank Marshall Davis, that he was a member of the far-left New Party in Chicago, that his main vocation in life has been street organizing and agitation and that he didn't think the revolutionarily, transformative Warren court was liberal enough.

  David Limbaugh

  Mother, Party, Thinking

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• Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually all of his adult life balancing his restrained homosexuality, which is bound together with his sensitivity to beauty and thus with his artistic vocation, against the demands of conventional society.

  Philip Kitcher

  Reading, Together, Adults

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I've done everything. I've sung, done records, plays... It just so happened my first professional job was as a dancer. I've done the whole shebang, darling. But dancing was my first professional engagement in 1974. I got paid for it, so that was it, my vocation. But my parents weren't keen. They wanted me to be an accountant in Italy. Or a lawyer. They were furious. I had to run away. I had to leave the country.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Running, Country, Jobs

  "Interrogation: Strictly's Len and Bruno". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. April 6, 2008.

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• Pondering was the highest vocation... Pondering was a special kind of thinking. It was not done in the mind, that chilly place, but in the heart, where the real mystery of intelligence - intuition - rather than thought lay catlike and feminine, ready to pounce.

  Patricia Hampl

  Real, Heart, Thinking

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Virgin Time”

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• Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and technology. Many recent discoveries have brought undeniable benefits to humanity. Indeed, they demonstrate the nobility of the human vocation to participate responsibly in God's creative action in the world. Unfortunately, it is now clear that the application of these discoveries in the fields of industry and agriculture have produced harmful long-term effects.

  Pope John Paul II

  Character, Technology, Agriculture

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• Cherish your health, family, friends, and vocation for none of these things are permanent.

  Joe Sacco

  Cherish, Family Friends, Permanent

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• 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

  Desire, Goes On, Lectures

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• One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

  Jessye Norman

  Ambition, Needs, Talent

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• May the Santo Niño continue to bless the Philippines and may he sustain the Christians of this great nation in their vocation to be witnesses and missionaries of the joy of the Gospel, in Asia and in the whole world.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Joy, World

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