252 Quotes About Vocation

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.

To cleave wood is a common every-day business, and yet it has its dangers; so then, reader, there are dangers connected with your calling and daily life which it will be well for you to be aware of. Your occupation may be as humble as log splitting, and yet the devil can tempt you in it. Nowhere is he safe who thinks himself so.

How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII

He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.

The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

We feel unfulfilled when there is a gap between what is most important to us, the realm of personal leadership, and what we are actually doing with our time, the realm of personal management. You are satisfied with your day when there is a match between what you value and how you spend your time.

I became an actor because it was my clumsy attempt to become myself.