“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.” KnowsWayWritingTryingSoulWholeTestsAwfulVocationWriting PoetryMerging Author:Sidney Lanier
“There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn’t this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?” MightDoubtHorrorIntellectualNo DoubtDistrustVocationSlumber Author:Vaclav Havel
“In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the outside in, but authority works from the inside out. . . . I am painfully aware of the times in my own teaching when I lose touch with my inner teacher and therefore with my own authority. In those times I try to gain power by barricading myself behind the podium and my status while wielding the threat of grades. . . . Authority comes as I reclaim my identity and integrity, remembering my selfhood and my sense of vocation.” TryingTwoRememberCultureLosesMy OwnBehindsPowerTeacherTeachingIdentityIntegrityAuthorityGainsThreatTechniqueGradesVocation Author:Parker J. Palmer
“Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.” PersonsTalentVocation Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!” IfsMenHeartDoeUsedLyingNaturalPleasureFictionDoubtGraceImagineInfluenceDangerousCreationElementsWeaponsIllusionAppearanceDisappearShockRudeDistrustVocationDeceptive Author:Marquis de Custine
“When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.” LittlesKidsGrowsBlackGrowing UpJazzVocationLittle KidNightclubs Author:Molly Ringwald
“My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering” JobsVocationSuitableMothering Author:Mare Winningham
“I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.” WayFeelsRomanceCallingVocation Author:Alden Ehrenreich