252 Quotes About Vocation

Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore—only Gifted and Disposable?

Your job is to find out what the world is trying to be.

The genius inside a person wants activity. It’s connected to the stars; it’s connected to a spark and it wants to burn and it wants to make and it wants to create and it has gifts to give. That is the nature of inner genius.

If you can't give it all you've got, don't bother.

It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus— that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers, saying with our entire curved and silenced selves, more, more, more. I want to insist that are being alive is beautiful enough to be worthy of replication. And so what? So what if all I ever made of my life was more of it?

I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.

A young mark twain on the make: "I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.

...young people know very little about themselves and their abilities. When the day comes on which they discover their real strong points and their weaknesses, it is often to late. They have usually been drawn into the current of a particular vocation, and have given too much energy to the preparation for a specific achievement to change the whole life-plan once more. The entire scheme of education gives to the individual little chance to find himself.

The horizon changes but the sun does not.