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• Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

  Marjo-Riikka Makela

  Acting, Actors, Competing

  speech at the opening ceremony for Chekhov Studio International, Los Angeles, 2009.

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• I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

  Kevin Cramer

  Ministry, Plumber, Public Life

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• There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of dignity and honor to manhood, we have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have sense of legitimate self-worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

  Sam Keen

  Jobs, Self Worth, People

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.168, Bantam

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• Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.

  Scott Weiss

  People, Track, World

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• Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.

  Teresa of Avila

  People, Progress, Cheerful

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• I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.

  Louise Erdrich

  Effort, Solitude, Married

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• Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem to be incapable of that abandon which is the requisite condition of social pleasure; and bent upon winning a tribute of admiration, or some hint which they can turn to the account of pen-craft, there is seldom in their company any of the delightful unconsciousness which harmonizes a circle.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Winning, Circles, Hints

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• One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Scientist, Company, Pursue

  "$800 million biotech business started in a garage" by Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

  Tabare Vazquez

  Opportunity, Medicine, People

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• Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.

  Hannah More

  Pleasure, Trade, Knows

  William Roberts, Hannah More (1835). “Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More”, p.162

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• In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Abundance, Seems

  Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Occupation, Twins, Born

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• All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Doe, Different

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.52, Letcetera Publishing

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• art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting; in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art, Waiting, Crafts

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Humility, Arrogance

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a new human being to emerge. Her vocation is unique.

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Life, Hope, Fear

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• The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.

  Eric Greitens

  Passion, Joy, Needs

  "A Navy SEAL's wise advice to graduates" by William J. Bennett, www.cnn.com. May 25, 2012.

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• Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.

  Ivan Illich

  Latin, School, Home

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• The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

  Emma Goldman

  Mother, Sex, Men

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• The ambitious man has never found his true vocation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Ambitious, Found

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.77, New World Library

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• The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I realize how crucial it is not to allow myself to become paralyzed by feelings of helplessness and guilt. More important than ever is to be very faithful to my vocation to do well the few things I am called to do and hold on to the joy and peace they bring me. I must resist the temptation to let the forces of darkness pull me into despair and make me one more of their many victims.

  Henri Nouwen

  Healing, Thinking, Our World

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• Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Nursing, Occupation, Chance

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• Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years.

  John B. Watson

  Artist, Years, Doctors

  "Behaviorism". Book by John B. Watson (p.82), 1930.

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• Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gambling, Hands, Evil

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.126

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• My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.

  Albert Camus

  Gratitude, Men, Law

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