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• I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.

  Chynna Phillips

  Kids, Vacation

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• I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Doubt, Doe, Care

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• But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

  Alanis Morissette

  Writing, Sick, Share

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

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Felt

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• I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

  Chris Isaak

  Desire, Calling, Talent

  "Musician Chris Isaak". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. November 15, 2011.

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• We're all in full-time Christian service. We have different disguises, but the same vocation; to be out and out lovers and servants of the Lord Jesus Christ... no dichotomy exists between ministry and lifestyle.

  Dwight Edwards

  Christian, Jesus, Different

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• When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Careers, Sometimes

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• I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.

  Mavis Gallant

  Dream, Father, Writing

  Mavis Gallant (2011). “Varieties of Exile”, p.136, New York Review of Books

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• 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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• The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers.

  James Allen

  Beautiful, Men, Dreamer

  James Allen (2015). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained.

  Anna Godbersen

  Chiefs

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “The Luxe”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• 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, Work, Who I Am

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.4, John Wiley & Sons

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• The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

  Kay Boyle

  Acceptance, Speaks Out, Decision

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• Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief season of our existence on earth we may serve as a plumber, professor, farmer, physician, mechanic, bookkeeper, or teacher. These are useful activities and honorable designations; but a temporary vocation is not reflective of our true identities. Matthew was a tax collector, Luke a physician, and Peter a fisherman. In a salvational sense, 'so what!'

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Teacher, Self Esteem, Responsibility

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• What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes to the horizon, to dream of a life worthy of its vocation - if not beauty?

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Dream, Inspiration

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• Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.

  Nicholas Lore

  Travel, Vacation

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• Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's tired of the stereotype. She likes children just fine, but they're not the standard against which all other accomplishments should be measured. Caring for animals is worthwhile in and of itself, a vocation that need offer no apologies.

  Ted Chiang

  Children, Tired, Apology

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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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• You thought you’d never give up your vocation, a voice whispered inside me. You thought you’d never even consider it. But you’ve met the one man who could change your mind. He is your perfect complement. He is Cathal to your Clodagh; he is Bran to your Liadan. No wonder you conjured up those images. No wonder they make you weep.

  Juliet Marillier

  Giving Up, Men, Voice

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Seer of Sevenwaters”, p.303, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Writing, Political, Mind

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “Letters to a Young Novelist”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Peculiar, Genius

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.29, Applewood Books

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• Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.

  Lewis Hyde

  Art, Memories, Inspiration

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• Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Intelligent, Water

  "Notes from Underground". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 19), 1918.

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• The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.

  William Safire

  Jobs, Stress, Exercise

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• I have been fortunate to work in places where people have a passion for their work. At HHS the passion sort of exceeds passion - it's a vocation.... I obviously knew that there were certainly some challenges that I would be taking on both with the work and the politics. [But] I probably did not have the right expectation level with regard to the number and volume of crises that would occur.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Passion, Numbers, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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