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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Power
Strongly
Vocation
Felt
Always
Very
My desperation to be on the stage and perform was like a vocation, a religious calling.
David Jason
Desperation
Stage
Religious
Vocation
Perform
Like
Calling
Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
Edith Stein
God
Lost
Everyone
Our
Those
Vocation
Join
Because
Dear
Been
Won
Order
Them
Who
Near
Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.
Edward Hirsch
Vocation
Poetry
Calling
Career
As much as my primary vocation is that of an actor, if anything, I feel like I am more excited about filmmaking in general, so it's not always a specific role that I'm attracted to, but rather an entire piece that I want to be a part of.
Elijah Wood
Entire
About
Vocation
General
Rather
More
Part
Excited
Primary
Feel
Like
Piece
Attracted
Always
Am
Role
Want
Anything
Much
Actor
Specific
Filmmaking
Promoting dependency is the Democratic Party's vocation. It knows that almost all entitlements are forever, and those that are not - e.g., the lifetime eligibility for welfare, repealed in 1996 - are not for the middle class.
George Will
Class
Entitlement
Welfare
Party
Those
Promoting
Vocation
Lifetime
Almost
Almost All
Democratic
Knows
Forever
Dependency
Middle
Middle Class
Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.
Giovanni Ribisi
You
Path
Something
Vocation
Your
Choose
Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.
Henri Nouwen
God
People
Member
Vocation
Full-Time
Each
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Honore de Balzac
Man
Drains
Entire
Vocation
Color
Existence
Unfulfilled
The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.
Jason Epstein
Work
Today
Game
Reward
Own
Profit
Though
Stay
Vocation
General
Never
Primary
Primary Goal
Insufficient
Non-Fiction
Goal
Essential
Fiction
Which
Publishing
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
Jimmy Page
Army
Guitar
Building
Harmonies
Else
Composition
Vocation
More
Like
Up
Than
Anything
Anything Else
Really
Using
It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever.
John Updike
Love
Good
Daily
Financial
Reward
Whatever
Other
See
Vocation
Fairly
Sort
Glory
Expectations
Task
Modest
Your
Coin
Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation.
Julia Glass
Me
People
About
Vocation
Share
Call
Narcissistic
Territorial
Avoid
Who
Novels
In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.
Ken Starr
Law
Will
Sense
Dimensions
Constitutional
Vocation
Lead
Calling
Interested
Certain
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
Women
Objectives
Vocation
Pursue
Make
Sure
Scientists
Create
Company
Started
I'm not necessarily in a vocation where I'm at risk; it's not like I'm a police officer. I'm a musician, so when I leave home, my family expects me to come back.
Kristian Bush
Home
Family
Me
Police
Back
Musician
Vocation
Risk
Come
Like
Police Officer
Leave
Officer
Expects
Where
Necessarily
Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
Larry Flynt
Politics
Vocation
Hobby
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Love
Vocation
Drudgery
Involves
Test
Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
Michael Moriarty
Life
Education
My Life
Consider
Later
Kind
Something
Vocation
Had
Calling
Came
Theater
Acting
Film
I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
Michael Moriarty
Education
Consider
Kind
Vocation
Had
Calling
Theater
Acting
A vocation is a noble thing and not to be subverted by the whims of politicians.
Michael Portillo
Politicians
Vocation
Noble
Whims
Thing
My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.
Nick Cannon
Love
Vocation
Vacation
I had been laughed at my whole life through school, and I never really thought of it as a vocation. I mean, I started off as a soldier, and then I went into the university thinking I was going to be a journalist, but comedy kind of fell on my head and demanded I pursue it.
Rhys Darby
Life
School
Comedy
Thought
Journalist
Thinking
Soldier
Laughed
Kind
Vocation
Pursue
Through
Never
Had
Head
Demanded
Fell
Been
Off
Going
Mean
Then
Really
Whole
Started
University
I have this problem - I don't have hobbies. Everything that's interesting becomes a vocation.
Ron Ben-Israel
Problem
Everything
Vocation
Becomes
Hobbies
Interesting
When I joined the SEALs, no one knew what a SEAL was. What intrigued me was the level of commitment, the love of country and desire to be the best in the world at your vocation. Watching American exceptionalism in action.
Ryan Zinke
Love
Best
Me
Commitment
World
Country
Action
Intrigued
Vocation
Joined
No-One
Knew
American
Your
Seal
Seals
Level
Watching
Desire
Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.
Scott Weiss
Best
You
Yourself
People
World
Surround Yourself
Whatever
Down
Vocation
Track
Doing
Surround
Decide
Them
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