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"vocation" Definitions
  1. [countable] a type of work or way of life that you believe is especially suitable for you synonym calling
  2. [countable, uncountable] vocation (for something) a belief that a particular type of work or way of life is especially suitable for you
  3. [countable, uncountable] a belief that you have been chosen by God to be a priest or nun

558 Sentences With "vocation"

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Ms. Oliver often described her vocation as the observation of life, and it is clear from her texts that she considered the vocation a quasi-religious one.
The ensuing turmoil would force her to question an old core principle of the writer's vocation, to presume authority, and of woman's vocation, to sacrifice herself for others.
Rather than reacting resentfully, however, Hope began to incorporate the film into its teaching about vocation — and it is this kind of self-critical engagement that is crucial to the vocation movement.
But once he cleaned up, that became his primary vocation.
By that definition Jeremy Corbyn is failing in his vocation.
The question of vocation is not an intramural theological debate.
That will help you advance, no matter what your vocation.
I consider teaching and learning to be a sacred vocation.
"His civic vocation seems to know no limits," Semana gushed.
Who wants to give up their vacation for a vocation?
Of course, several fans initially scoffed at Weezy's new vocation.
Because of that, I never doubted my choice of vocation.
But her personal interest in art turned into her vocation.
But a person can find their vocation late in life.
Jacobs found her vocation quickly but her subject very late.
K: For me, it's part of a sense of vocation.
What exactly does it mean to explore "vocation" this way?
Did you swell with pride for your country and vocation?
He has the vocation, but the blank page is a wall.
It was my dream vocation, but the work itself became secondary.
He sees ample parallels between the sport and his new vocation.
Scandalizing the sensibilities of the masses was part of the vocation.
Do I want music to be a vocation or an avocation?
But antiquities looting is also a vocation for Middle Eastern regimes.
And that vocation is fueled by a theology of positive thinking.
It calls business "a noble vocation", especially if it creates jobs.
My first vocation, before becoming a professor, was as a pastor.
For the rangers, cleaning the beaches is more than a vocation.
Snowboarders generally consider their trade more a lifestyle than a vocation.
The counselor, incredulous, suggested that he seek a more practical vocation.
"Santa is not a profession, it's a vocation," said Mr. Wenz.
Despite his religious vocation, he has a resume that suits the bee.
From advocate for children to senator, she has pursued her vocation tirelessly.
"My vocation has always rejected me," Ginzburg wrote in The Little Virtues.
And so I think it possible to imagine a revival of vocation.
By then, her budding fascination with photography had turned into a vocation.
Most of that improvement was related to their business, careers or vocation.
But because golf is his vocation, Sunday is a red-letter day.
Instead, it gave me a vocation and made me who I am.
But he found a new vocation while helping the nuns prepare meals.
At the C.I.A., he tried to frame espionage as an honorable vocation.
One is that the vocation I've dedicated my life to is meaningless.
How could the highest Christian religious vocation reject something so obviously natural?
"We have always had a vocation of supporting the system," he said.
Then, at the age of thirty, Martin found a vocation in painting.
Anyone who does that as a vocation is, in my opinion, clinical.
Her vocation was illegal, so we had to keep it hush-hush.
Another criticism might be that talk of vocation blinds students to inequality.
Life after politics has been more of a "vocation" for Rudd, he said.
Dr Bark, a forceful speaker, has made a vocation out of opposing vaccines.
In any vocation, art, science or discipline, no one forgets a good teacher.
Everybody can and should be an agent of change in their own vocation.
Many critics took this attack personally and accused Gioia of devaluing their vocation.
The shelter provides them with counseling, formal education, and vocation and skill development.
The shelter provides them with counseling, formal education and vocation and skill development.
For a while, the vocation lent Barry's solitary existence a semblance of meaning.
Michel found his vocation early, cooking for the family while still a child.
The following year, Barnum finally found his vocation—or perhaps it found him.
"To do that job, you have to have a particular vocation," Mandelstam said.
When Celeste Beatty brewed her first batch of beer, she found her vocation.
The two Indonesian initiatives stand out for their resolutely practical, vocation-based approach.
Despite his acclaim, Mr. Vaughn could be a little disdainful about his vocation.
Markey also explores Maura's own doubts about her worthiness for such a vocation.
Why vocation, though, rather than the old model of learning for learning's sake?
I'm very lucky, but it's not something that really rewards you, as a vocation.
"God gave you to me and made you my vocation," he wrote to her.
He's thoughtful on his chosen vocation; first, though, he spoke of the septuagenarian Ali.
Let's start with a refresher on the difference between a vocation and a career.
A career is something you choose; a vocation is something you are called to.
People with a vocation mind-set have their eyes fixed on the long game.
He struggled to discover a vocation and, for a while, succeeded as a journalist.
Louisiana became the first state to add a person's chosen vocation to that list.
Mr. Scheer's vocation was frequently a deal breaker once a woman learned of it.
Vocation, a calling, is the subject here, alongside hard work and trial-and-error.
What has never been in doubt with Ms. Gill is her sense of vocation.
The attention seemed to startle her, since she described her vocation in modest terms.
" Asked if that included him, Navarro said, "Of course, it's a vocation with everybody.
Now that he had crossed the bridge to apostasy, he needed a new vocation.
Despite this less-than-auspicious start to her new vocation, she wasn&apost discouraged.
In our conservative, patriarchal societies, a woman's true vocation is to be a mother.
His is a lonely vocation, exactly as lonely as Remy's, at least at first.
He knew nothing about me, about those aspects of my life there's no reason for my students to guess at, even though I'm more open than is usual for my vocation, or for my trade, rather, though maybe it was a vocation once.
Meanwhile, my dad couldn't understand why I wouldn't just study a vocation after finishing school.
Younas had a big house, plenty of food and a vocation dedicated to helping people.
Professional investors and large-company CEOs are globalists and free traders, by orientation and vocation.
They also intertwine the party's pro-openness vocation with the national interest like never before.
You know, maybe your profession and vocation is also your political work, maybe it isn't.
Every native Floridian, regardless of vocation, happens also to be a psychoanalyst of our state.
But the film also blends in a modern understanding of sexuality, spirituality, individuality, and vocation.
If you have all of that you don't have a job, you've got a vocation.
It's worth noting that, for Aira, writing seems more like a compulsion than a vocation.
One Way to Make College Meaningful "Don't find yourself; find a vocation," says this writer.
Despite his skepticism, it didn&apost take long for him to embrace his newfound vocation.
He seems to value faith and is also a talented pianist (which is my vocation)!
And the tradition of priestly celibacy, they argued, is central, not peripheral, to that vocation.
He laughed when he was asked if he mixed his vocation and avocation to treat dogs.
Unfashionable they may be, but their vocation is also noble: they give people what they want.
In my case, it had nothing to do with vocation and everything to do with convenience.
After her injury, swimming became not only her hobby, but her refuge — and soon, her vocation.
Its vocation was reaffirmed by the law on modernisation of the economy of 35631 august 2008.
Here, she left her teaching order, but in no way did she abandon her religious vocation.
In the UK alone, there are 200 consecrated women, according to the National Office of Vocation.
In the UK alone, there are 200 consecrated women, according to the National Office of Vocation.
In these songs, that would be vocation enough, a chance to find transcendence by giving everything.
"For our officers, it is a vocation, a calling to be a police officer," he said.
Apparently, Eric's death liberated Katrin's curiosity, hunger and true vocation, however unwieldy or awkward or impolite.
Being relentlessly on the make, for someone like Trump, isn't just a job; it's a vocation.
There, observing the monkeys interacting with one another in their Caribbean habitat, Santos found her vocation.
On one side, we have Claudio Gatti, an investigative journalist with a strong sense of vocation.
"This project fits within our cultural vocation in the field of modern art," Mr. Briest said.
Rather, they offer multiple lenses into how architects are reimagining the fundamental elements of their vocation.
The rants go viral and Mark's vocation turns out to be fracking the internet's subsurface anger.
He is a scientist by training, an entrepreneur by vocation and an avid gardener and naturalist.
Does your previous vocation as a veterinarian make its way into your fiction in any way?
If you make it a vocation, you can look forward to a [Harvard] Kennedy School chair.
Prison officers should be like nurses; it should be a vocation degree, and it's a profession.
Dominika's true passion is ballet, but an early, brutal accident leaves that vocation unavailable to her.
She chose another vocation and, under her married name, Agatha Christie became the world's best-selling novelist.
Dean is honest by vocation, a Canadian talk-show celebrity turned therapist, so the GPS arrangement stayed.
Gibraltar—exotic and yet familiar, so European by vocation but so British in feel—sums them up.
This feeling was underscored when, in the early 1960s, he became a Catholic and poetry a vocation.
His need for a vocation seemed, in some ways, to reflect his lack of a real identity.
When he chose vocation over location, he was forced to chase his dreams in a big city.
Apart from the annual bacchanal of Carnival, Rio has found no vocation to replace banking and bureaucracy.
When she returned to her vocation, in 2013, she was "another writer," and a consciously "obscured" one.
Every woman—no matter what vocation you take on, you are susceptible to that kind of treatment.
But getting into the business wasn't about money; mukbang was more of a calling than a vocation.
Arnett has spent her career working in libraries, a vocation she has written about with great affection.
There was no need for Evans himself to rush, because of his faith in his own vocation.
The medal "aims at underlining the vocation of those who govern in helping the poor," Francis told Macron.
But Louisiana's new law goes beyond that, making it the first state to add vocation to that list.
Louisiana becomes the first state to add one's chosen vocation to that list, something that has rankled opponents.
Fidel was a Marxist of convenience, a Cuban nationalist by conviction and a Latin American caudillo by vocation.
And fact-checking is a vocation that often finds itself mired in petty word-based disputes like this.
It's his primary vocation and he is actively searching for advertisers and fundraising in order to improve it.
There's a larger lesson here, especially for people who have found a career and vocation that feels fulfilling.
I've always felt that media is one of the great places where one can combine avocation and vocation.
But he found his vocation late, by some measures, several years after his graduation from high school. Msgr.
Attewell pinpointed her approach to her vocation as the key to her financial success as an independent worker.
Even if you aren't in your dream career or vocation, you realize the importance of paying your dues.
James has demonstrated that perhaps no vocation lends itself to the coming-of-age yarn better than athlete.
Cardi could be considered the figurehead of this era of rap as vocation rather than as creative pursuit.
But at least we can introduce a few alternatives: vocation and avocation, role and duty, service and contribution.
I'm sure I could find some other job that would pay more, but it would be a vocation.
But fighting against that has become a vocation all its own: "It feels like a grass-roots movement."
"The Roma's presumed vocation to nomadism has been the result of repression and persecution throughout Europe," he said.
In tracing the flowering of her vocation, Mr. Davies pays scrupulous attention to the milieu that fed it.
A thermometer, unless your very vocation is grilling steaks day-in, day-out, is a very good idea.
Early on, Mr. Parker would have seemed an unlikely pioneer in any vocation requiring a coat and tie.
Thinking about vocation often requires parts of a college that do not usually work together to think cohesively.
But she discovered her vocation in asset management at Yale, where she earned a master's in business administration.
Her mother ran a foundation to support playwrights, and Ms. Chopra acquired a sense of vocation early on.
He did this, as writers will, in pursuit of the story he wanted to tell: how his brother's ascent to intellectual dominance forced him into a lesser role as attendant observer, but how, in that lesser, watching role, he eventually found his vocation in life, a vocation defined by its disabilities.
In a world in which little survives that can be called priestly, this responsibility makes writing a priestly vocation.
Mother Teresa could have practised her monastic vocation in Ireland, a land where she lived as a young woman.
In this case, the responsibility is about choosing and pursuing a sense of vocation consciously, with will and commitment.
Even a socially good vocation can swallow you up and make you lose a sense of your own voice.
Maybe discovering a religious vocation isn't laugh-riot material, but a fallible comedian wrestling with his value on Earth?
Emotionalism, as Max Weber had so brilliantly suggested in "Politics as a Vocation," can be deadly for liberal values.
Nobody told me, growing up, that in addition to a regular career one must embrace a secret administrative vocation.
You experience something from the age of 211972 to 17 that drives your passion and love for your vocation.
At first, even as he began doing Christian field work, Campolo resisted his father's vocation of big-time preaching.
I think we should all strive to find a vocation that strikes at the intersection of these three attributes.
A fascination with words thrust me into a vocation that has kept me aflame with a desire to communicate.
And that's because, though one cooks and the other writes restaurant reviews, it is in essence the same vocation.
Could "occupation," for instance, denote a primary vocation, a part-time avocation or even just a paid hobby or pastime?
I'm a lawyer by profession, an academic by vocation and a racial justice crusader by mission, but I'm no saint.
He barely mentioned the subject on which he is most authoritative and passionate: the EU and Germany's vocation within it.
Torres Landa said Lopez Obrador could pursue economic policies in response to a "structural problem" in Mexico's free trade vocation.
Ensuite c'est ce qui nous permet d'acter que... pour moi la puissance militaire n'a pas vocation forcément à être utilisée.
Politics was a family vocation: Carol Gabbard, Tulsi's mother, won a seat on the State Board of Education in 21992.
Even if they don't always understand this vocation because it's nebulous and not by the books, they are so supportive.
The vocation of lead singer in a band is not one that naturally lends itself to managing an anxiety disorder.
In a way that's why I chose music as a vocation, because I couldn't change, as much as I tried.
And because Trappists see their lifestyle as a vocation, or a call from Jesus, they don't actively recruit new members.
As Vakoch and I settled into a booth, I asked him how he found his way to his current vocation.
None of these are less vital than the others, but we are all uniquely able to fulfill our specific vocation.
In 1970, the family settled in Scarsdale, where Eisenman embraced her vocation as an artist while still in high school.
It is something beyond that, something more akin to the vocation of pain to which a great poet is born.
Health has been a vocation for Ms. Henner ever since the publication of "Marilu Henner's Total Health Makeover" in 2000.
Indeed, in the 1950s, just one in 20 of U.S. workers needed the government's permission to pursue their chosen vocation.
But before stepping into the ring he wanted to talk instead about his new vocation: the rehabilitation of Islamist militants.
In addition to lifting graduation rates, then, vocation programming can be more intellectually capacious than it might at first seem.
Many a person with a common vocation keeps an uncommon hobby, perhaps one that borders on the downright strange and unconventional.
On the contrary, the finance business is diverted from its virtuous vocation of helping investment into what economists call rent-seeking.
The intersection of passion profession, mission, and vocation, ikigai is that one thing that gets you out of bed every morning.
"Women and men are equally valuable but are of different vocation, predisposed biologically for some tasks or other tasks," tweeted one.
Teaching is considered a natural vocation for a would-be do-gooder, but it is not clear that it should be.
Travis Scott is the originator of the "vibe curator" vocation that various practitioners have taken deeply to their designer-fitted hearts.
A boy named Othmar H. Ammann, born in Schaffhausen in 26, found his vocation as an engineer while contemplating that bridge.
Becoming an agent of your own patient's death is directly at odds with a vocation designed to prolong and enhance lives.
Beyond their ideological differences, Mr. Trump, a populist right-winger, and Mr. Chávez, a leftist strongman, share the same telegenic vocation.
A person summoned by a vocation asks, How can my existing abilities be put in service of the greatest common good?
While I still have four books under contract and am hopeful they will do well, my sense of vocation has expanded.
They have families and they work in our schools, our police departments, and every other vocation and segment of our society.
And while Goldman's vocation might raise some eyebrows, the gender disparity within the field is likely to start closing, if gradually.
His vocation is collecting dreams, flickering webs of light that he catches with a net and stores in carefully labeled jars.
Albert is a car guy by passion and vocation, a former curator of vehicle collections at the Science Museum in London.
They want to be recognized with clearer, more authoritative guidelines from the pope on issues like medical transition, vocation, and marriage.
It was at this moment, the curators said, that Leonardo transitioned from sculpture to painting, and made painting his lifelong vocation.
At 21994, Gunnar saw an older classmate's architectural rendering of a gas station and decided then and there on his vocation.
I responded that calling unsuspecting women on the telephone to ask them if they were naked was an equally stupid vocation.
At the opposite end, a statue of Christopher Columbus points a finger toward the Mediterranean, a symbol of Barcelona's cosmopolitan vocation.
Rather, it tries to understand the kind of person who would be attracted to such a vocation in the first place.
Yet this is countered by an element of scorn directed at herself, as a writer, for presuming anything about her vocation.
"After 9/11, NATO's main vocation became fighting terrorism in Afghanistan," said Alexander Vershbow, the former deputy secretary general of NATO.
Vocation will not be the only one that returns students to the question of what they should do with their lives.
But, she wrote in 2011, she also received thousands of letters of support, and those letters became a kind of vocation.
Throughout her own four-decade career, Dr. Silverman defined her vocation to encompass archaeology, linguistics, and both biological and cultural anthropology.
We have attracted some great writers; some have become famous, many more have set aside their vocation and remained in the service.
"I kind of have a sense of vocation ... of the work that needs to be done to improve this branch," he continued.
The song was initially released on Bandcamp, before slowly rising through the music blogs and solidifying Turner's new vocation as a musician.
" I remember talking to you about it, you said, "What I'm not going to do is create another B503B industry of vocation.
I think there's comedy to be mined by poking holes in any vocation, but doing so with therapy is just so...therapeutic.
Presiding over the games, as godfather and referee, is Said Gul Agha, who goes by the nickname The Mechanic, his weekday vocation.
A Roman Catholic priest who began his vocation in a monastic order, Father Palladino was also a world-renowned master of calligraphy.
His rivals — including Hillary Clinton — have had to submit to their vocation as politicians and try to sell their character and integrity.
Whereas "Serial" lurches from subject to subject, Reed crafted a supple narrative framed by a controlling metaphor derived from McLemore's vocation, clockmaking.
She dreamed of growing up to be the Wicked Witch of the West, but has found perhaps, an even more fitting vocation.
For Domme Discordia, Backpage has consistently been the one site where the return on investment was sufficient to support her expensive vocation.
He is now gainfully employed as an analyst of gold and other precious metals, a hobby he has turned into a vocation.
Rather than pretend he's uniquely industrious or that charitable giving is his vocation, Bloomberg should have used this opportunity to defend capitalism.
Yet it's her vocation as an actress that renders her difficult to define; Imogen has described her own "self" as an alias.
But O'Neill, in an emotional defense of his professionalism, his wife's vocation and their marriage, declined to step away from the case.
It was at Harvard, where he went for graduate studies after the war, that he began to see poetry as a vocation.
"It hurts us to see these children without their parents and it is our vocation to reunite them," Volaris said in a statement.
Newark's Shakur Stevenson already has a vocation, having won a silver medal as a bantamweight boxer at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil.
Politics -- whether you are an elected official, a reporter, a staffer or someone who just follows it closely -- is more vocation than job.
Although "infuriated," as Claridge puts it, by her husband's perfidy, Blanche nevertheless remained loyal to their shared vocation, if not to the marriage.
Clinton was an open practitioner of Max Weber's politics as a vocation in a world full of phonies preaching unworkable charismatic leadership models.
Ammons's authority relied upon his presentation of himself as an ordinary person, not uniquely or exclusively called to the vocation of writing poems.
Vocation Day merely heightened her curiosity about the possibility of a consecrated life, both what is gained and what is sacrificed in it.
Trump was greeted by Upbring CEO Dr. Kurt Senske, who outlined Upbring's five markers of success: safety, life skills, health, education and vocation.
Far be it from me to knock anyone's (side) hustle, but I can't fully shake the (gag) Orwellian overtones of vocation-as-relaxation.
Tech, it seems to anyone who tracks the industry for a vocation, is having a "moment," and not always for the right reasons.
Roth also is declaring his vocation as an artist, and he is committing himself to a very austere life of dedication to art.
But Laos has other resonance for Mr. Obama, who has made a vocation, from Cuba to Myanmar, of opening ties to closed societies.
Preaching to the flock from his first Bible, he finds the voice that leads him to his vocation, one he still practices today.
Instead, it embraces a comforting form of cinematic conservatism, based on the mythical competence and essential decency of men whose vocation is violence.
That may be a more important vocation than hunting in vain for a single avant-garde in a world as large as ours.
But I haven't shut alcohol out altogether, because of my vocation and because I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with drinking alcohol.
They were, perhaps unwittingly, following in the tradition of Howard Russell Butler, for whom painting had a vocation as fundamental as the sun.
This isn't so unique; from Wim Wenders to Peter Bogdanovich, many filmmakers have documented artists in order to better understand their own vocation.
The commitment to work — not "career" or "vocation" or anything sexy like that, just plain old work — strikes me as being distinctly American.
The son of a professor who remained loyal to the Communist Party, Mr. Liu made a vocation out of obdurate opposition to authoritarianism.
Now, after two decades of stability and prospects for a prosperous future, Serbia again is returning to an old vocation — seeking regional hegemony.
You have your five big passions in life — say, family, vocation, friends, community, faith — and live flexibly within the gravitational pull of each.
"It seemed to me quite a natural thing," Mr. Silvers told The Guardian of his decision to take up editing as a vocation.
Ms. Lewis said she had always been interested in the arts but didn't have a sense of how to make them her vocation.
I can't imagine the bitterness of having to deal with one's vocation and artistic calling being inextricably linked to a monstrous, criminal upbringing.
But scholars are also working hard on research and teaching that imagines vocation in a way that takes into account prejudice and inequity.
These artists knew, and Kahlo and Rivera knew when they collected them, that art has a much higher vocation than myth or merchandise.
It would be genuinely outrageous to condemn a public defender for catching some heinous clients in the course of pursuing an honorable vocation.
We are often told to "follow our dreams", to find our vocation, to live life in accordance with what it is that we love.
Woodcock, as befitting his chosen vocation, is fastidiously attentive to detail and a bit tyrannical about his surroundings, though he rarely raises his voice.
Canada's vocation for trade began in the early 260th century, when French fur traders established bases in what are now Nova Scotia and Quebec.
Soon, The Sims 4's next expansion, Get Famous, will add a timely new vocation to the long-running life simulation game: the influencer.
"Politics as a Vocation" continues to inspire those who want to understand politics as it is, not as they might wish it to be.
By then, Mr. Kaplan had embarked on his unlikely vocation as a globe-trotting conductor of Mahler's Second Symphony — and only Mahler's Second Symphony.
With a portrait photographer for a grandfather, too, it is unsurprising that Mr Gursky later stated that his vocation was "not a conscious decision".
VICE News traveled to Japan to look at this disappearing vocation, one of the last sustainable practices left in the age of commercial fishing.
He later told us he found it rewarding to be around people who have different skills, and to witness their dedication to their vocation.
Tourists in bad faith, we are paid to elevate our naïve consumption (of city, museum, vista, ruin, breakfast) to the level of a vocation.
The girls' technical school teachers told them they should spend two years learning German and then three years learning a skill or a vocation.
They ache for the two children, who were presumably unaware of their parents' vocation and were not at home when the F.B.I. first arrived.
Like Stettheimer, Duchamp came from a well-to-do family, and shunned a standard career in favor of a lifelong vocation of entertaining himself.
The season's last half finds another gear, as the guilt-racked Barry has a harder and harder time compartmentalizing his vocation from his avocation.
The result is a paradox: a man passionate about America's vocation to save, yet burying the saved Polish Jew Golbraich, his father, inside him.
There is also, she added, a devaluation of writing in which it is often viewed as a hobby as opposed to a valuable vocation.
She suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, she said, and felt she could never return to the vocation to which she had long aspired.
In 2008, he petitioned for a leave of absence, telling the chancery that he was questioning his vocation because of his own sexual abuse.
But it wasn't until I started #117errores that I truly found my vocation and knew it was what I wanted to dedicate myself to.
Political radicalism at college is now more vocation than avocation, and anyone who displays a trace of racism, misogyny or sexual predation is suspect.
The digital effects, as the giant goes about his vocation of collecting dreams, are exquisite, A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
So when he went upstairs to announce his new vocation, his mother and father, engaged in a game of after-dinner bridge, were ​amused.
A former priest, L'Heureux retained his faith but left the vocation, and his work is simultaneously impatient with pieties and deeply, even ecstatically, religious.
"I don't even know who Sergio voted for," he said, insisting that Moro's vocation has always been to be a judge, not a politician.
Eventually she realised that directing was the one job which incorporated her various artistic interests, but she doesn't make it sound like an irresistible vocation.
They reinterpreted the biblical concept of vocation as a calling to fulfill one's duty in the world, where a successful career would signal God's favor.
No doubt, we're starting to feel the first inklings of an automation revolution, where steady advances in AI and robotics threaten virtually every human vocation.
I also came back as a hardcore geek, having dropped music as a vocation the day Marc Andreessen sent me a beta copy of Mosaic.
They are not professional writers choosing to make beautiful sentences out of the darkness as their vocation—as Jesmyn Ward does brilliantly in her memoir.
Over the years, he had given pills to countless novices who had dealt with doubts about their vocation by working themselves up into a fever.
In the cellar, she sat down on a case of Bon Ami to rest for a while and to examine the state of her vocation.
"Once we confirm Argentines' vocation for change this (the investments) will multiply several more times," he said just five days before mid-term primary elections.
She also recently registered to vote, and I know that she will use the power of her voice and her vocation to change the world.
There'd be a marriage ceremony of sorts to mark the moment when a young person found the vocation he or she would dedicate life to.
In his essay of 1919 on "Politics as a Vocation", Max Weber made a distinction between the "ethic of responsibility" and the "ethic of conviction".
Focussed on what Mauro's vocation allows him to achieve (independence, creativity, a cheap meal for a friend), it eschews the "anecdotes that build a legend."
Whether you're looking to pivot to a new vocation, earn a promotion, or kickstart side hustle, StackSkills should have the course you need to succeed.
Though they feel themselves called to a life of sacrifice, seclusion and austerity, that vocation often expresses itself with a passion that can be unsettling.
In an article for The New Yorker, Dan Chiasson notes that, in the 1850 national census, Dickinson self-consciously wrote "keeping house" as her vocation.
So I think that by vocation of globalization I think would be very detrimental for companies and would be very detrimental for countries in for regions.
They take immense pride in their vocation, spending up to an hour at the gym each day to build their strength, and even working through holidays.
Because I saw my vocation in this way, I was able to endure the difficulties I encountered as a police officer without becoming bitter or disillusioned.
This would be due to more widespread applications of camera drones in areas of mineral exploration, traffic law enforcement, disaster monitoring, and vocation education, said IDC.
On April 12, 2002, the Cinnaminson Board of Education, previously unaware of the relationship and DeShan's former vocation as a priest, placed DeShan on administrative suspension.
"It's totally possible to set up your own group and I believe that European reformists have a vocation to federate around them other movements," he said.
"Once we confirm Argentines' vocation for change, (the investments) will multiply several more times," he said, speaking just five days before the mid-term primary elections.
Reading articles, writing papers and engaging with my much-younger peers has invigorated my mind and energized my desire for my soon-to-be new vocation.
That's an astonishing statement coming from any journalist who believes that the vocation should largely be about putting tough questions to influential people, particularly bad people.
So much is contained in it: the idea of the individual, responsibility, choice, the life of the intellect, the idea of vocation and perfectibility and achievement.
By the end, he's helped kill someone in self-defense and is headed for a career as a scholar—always an esteemed vocation in Pullman's books.
"The vocation of Cannes, or all major festivals, is twofold: to honor great auteurs and make beautiful discoveries," Mr. Frémaux said of the mix of filmmakers.
Exposure to occupations and building employable skillsets are laudable aims — but only if the learning adds up to meaningful skills and knowledge in a potential vocation.
I do think that the show was ultimately too taken with the figure in expected ways that spoke of art as avocation as opposed to vocation.
"God gave you to me and made you my vocation," read a letter dated March 284, 22, one of several excerpts published on Monday by BBC News.
Almost uniquely among human occupations, priests cannot marry, as a function of their vocation; nor can they engage in sexual acts, as proscribed by Catholic moral teaching.
At first, brewing beer was yet another chore on a never-ending list of domestic duties, but eventually became a profitable vocation, providing women with financial independence.
People are catching on to the fact that vocation and trades are what will enable us to actually earn the income that will sustain and advance us.
Wendy Beckett entered a religious congregation, one with a teaching vocation, at the age of 16, and lived a life of committed celibacy for another seven decades.
She simultaneously comes across as a remote figure and the family's cynosure, an adulteress and a faithful wife, a doting mother and a servant of her vocation.
Each first responder trying AUDREY out will get a version that has been pre-educated for their specific vocation, and customized to his or her own preferences.
Yet in the Gospels, Jesus seems to understand his vocation as having something to do with the curious apocalyptic phrase "Son of Man," his favourite self-reference.
What the long-lived Japanese add to this list is ikigai, a concept that is, at times, used synonymously with purpose, passion, meaning, mission, vocation and drive.
I swallowed hard against a wave of nausea, of nausea and something else, they were indistinguishable, seven years, I thought, seven years undone, a betrayal of vocation.
King offered an example to all Americans that a life dedicated to the mission of social justice and human rights represents our ultimate purpose and greatest vocation.
But the example of his nimble intelligence and zestful audacity affected the sense of vocation—thoughts and motives, doubts and dreams—of subsequent generations, to this day.
" On her second vocation: "Chinese restaurants are always a good way to make money in the U.S." On leaving the spotlight: "My story is now in history.
What I felt was a sense of vocation: I must use photography as a means to shut away the ghosts resurrected by the excess of photographic afterimages.
"I see winegrowing as a 'way,' or awareness path, more than as a vocation, and my focus is on mindfulness and listening rather than commerce," he said.
Programs like Wayfinding Academy — although they do help students translate their vocation into a job — represent a revolt against treating the student as a future wage-earner.
Rejections and aesthetic misunderstandings are walls many black female artists must regularly scale when they seek to make art their full-time vocation and secure gallery representation.
It's a relief, actually, and confirms what I know from experience: that writing is a vocation and a practice over a lifetime, with its ups and downs.
His amateur announcing turned into a serious vocation when he traveled with friends to Havana, where they urged him to audition for Radio Salas, a popular station.
Mr. Brunetti, who was born in Germany in 1965, had worked for about two decades in advertising when, in 2005, he switched to a more singular vocation.
Parenting is not actually a separate activity — or avocation — or vocation — it's generally part of daily life, and you have your good moments and your bad moments.
Critics, however, say that a universal basic income is not only expensive, but disincentives work and undermines the structure and meaning that humans get from their vocation.
As she said in her essay "My Vocation" (1949): When we are happy our imagination is stronger; when we are unhappy our memory works with greater vitality.
Thomas's calling to a legal vocation was stirred as he realized how powerful — and dangerous — laws could be in the hands of those responsible for their interpretation.
Who knew that getting a really expensive education in sculpture and writing, and then buying a house I couldn't afford would lead to my creative vocation...in finance?
Also, only 0.0001 percent of the world's population has successfully pursued a vocation in surgery, charged with commanding surgical teams in operating rooms where they spill blood daily.
But what many saw as a poet's late foray into the visual arts was, in reality, a return to an early vocation that somehow morphed into complex hybrids.
Many of the region's tech firms grow out of its vocation for farming, fulfilling a Brazilian ambition to build high-value industries on its strengths in natural resources.
For Weber, the true political leader—one for whom politics is a vocation—is characterised by three qualities: passion, a feeling of responsibility and a sense of proportion.
If we slowed down the frenetic pace of competition, and helped students think about vocation — the meaning and purpose of work — then life would have a firmer base.
The municipality is throwing in a music conservatory, a hip-hop center, a library, rehearsal spaces and other public facilities to mitigate doubts about La Canopée's commercial vocation.
For others, though, it is a vocation with purpose, a union of two outsider groups leaning on each other in a nation uncertain about how to accept them.
Claims that most of Venezuela's military officials are deeply corrupt don't take into account that some may still honor the codes and vocation of the professional armed forces.
Gretchen (Diana Oh), pregnant with her second child and apparently devoid of interest or vocation beyond family and hemorrhoids, may or may not want to move to Connecticut.
Last year, Mr. Lewis turned his avocation into a vocation, taking a job at United Talent Agency, overseeing the division representing visual artists in entertainment and licensing deals.
She wanted to make inroads into the marijuana business, and she's thrilled that she's managed to find a position that treats delivery as a respectable, fully-guaranteed vocation.
If you design systems, societies, and economies that allow people to bring science into their own vocation, happiness, and their own way of being, we will be better off.
He and his three brothers all served as altar boys in the church of Saint Columba in Columbus, Ohio, and at one point he apparently considered a priestly vocation.
In particular, he wondered about the role of the writer — a vocation he saw as synonymous with the critic — in a society that claimed to have solved its problems.
As I began to rethink my understanding of the world around me, I embraced the notion that I had been created for a purpose and called to a vocation.
As I began to rethink my understanding of the world around me, I embraced the notion that I had been created for a purpose and called to a vocation.
He couldn't remember the other monks' names, or even the prayers that had been his vocation for decades, but the stories poured from him like water from a spring.
But for the child of a village policeman who had left school at 13, the poetry of past lives suddenly seemed a revelation—and led to his eventual vocation.
Growing up in a loving, supportive Seattle family that was ordinary yet quirky, the kind that's always putting on shows, he discovered his vocation uncommonly early, at age 9.
January's nearly over, and given my vocation as a (somewhat) professional metal nerd, it's safe to say that I've already heard a lot of new music—like, a lot.
And this was devastating, especially to women who'd devoted their lives to the vocation, only to feel as if the church was saying their efforts didn't mean very much.
In her books, however, rich characters accommodate themselves to their inability to change the world, and poor characters pursue an artistic vocation with optimism and openness to the future.
And I think it's also a great aspect of kind of their vocation of art and music and culture as a tool against oppression and a tool for change.
L'humoriste déclare qu'il a été en grande partie protégé du racisme " parce que nous étions tous des enfants d'immigrants ", ajoutant que ses parents indiens ont toujours encouragé sa vocation.
The cocksure spitter on "Go Crazy" and "Talk To 'Em" made no secret of his time in the streets during the years before rap became both passion and vocation.
Each move has financial and personal costs: It might involve going without a paycheck, looking for new housing, finding a new school district or adjusting to a new vocation.
Perhaps because writing is my vocation, I am inclined to consider my sentences, even in a humble e-mail, in some way a personal expression of my original thought.
He held the notion, rare among pro athletes, that his vocation was just a game and his true reach would be realized later, away from the cameras and spectators.
They'll sit alongside Pinter, Saramago, Grass and, of course, Dahl — writers to whom I will always feel grateful, not least because they did not choose politics as their vocation.
For her, this "loner's Disney World" is her last chance to redeem a painting vocation, indeed a whole life, that's been frozen since the suicide of her twin brother.
" Still, doleful love songs are Ms. Del Rey's enduring vocation: songs like "Change," a bare-bones piano ballad in which she resolves to "find the power to be faithful.
The main character in "Endless Poetry" is exactly that: a 20-ish Alejandro (played by the director's son Adan) discovering his literary vocation in Chile in the late 1940s.
Liberty County schools were closed for two weeks after the storm, and the high school lost four classrooms in the vocation building, CNN affiliate WCTV reported in late October.
G. Stephanie Ali, the vocation coordinator at Create, says the program provides a unique space to enable young men to gain their footing and transition into a permanent setting.
When I worried to other higher-ed vocation types online about this, some chided me for underestimating the capacity of the oppressed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
In Washington, those who make politics a vocation or an avocation are consumed with this week's impeachment of Mr. Trump, the branding of a scarlet I upon his tenure.
By avowing her destiny as a great artist early and often, she was rejecting comfort and middling conformity to claim a vocation that, the record proves, involved scrupulous, uncompromising experimentation.
Clowning is a Cuban vocation, brought by French and Spanish settlers in the 18th century and Americanised in the 20th (the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus visited in 1949).
VETS, which stands for Vocation, Education and Training for Service members, is a for-profit program that began three years ago and was jump-started right out of Ross' wallet.
If we are to enable more people to do open source development as a full-time vocation, we need to grow supportive tech communities in places that are more affordable.
Nathalie's vocation as a philosophy professor is not incidental to the story; instead, Hansen-Løve uses her job as a way to open the material up to lofty, existential themes.
He begs for any post that will allow him to answer his vocation, and is dispatched to the Borinage, a poor coal-mining area of Belgium, as a lay preacher.
Even if they haven't been forced into it, they have still chosen a dangerous and unpleasant vocation as the best of their bad options — which means they need more options.
Before Sally even gets to Chicago, shocked at the darkness of the human condition, she decides to abandon her vocation and returns home, only to receive another, more profound shock.
The energy of young people on the side of the Francis Effect can and should be harnessed by a movement to allow women to fulfill their vocation to the priesthood.
In prison, Malcolm Little became Malcolm X, finding his vocation as a religious leader through the teachings of Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Elijah Muhammad, a former sharecropper from Georgia.
Finance is the "blood and pulse" of the economy, and it is the sector's "divine vocation" to serve the real economy, the official Xinhua News Agency quoted Xi as saying.
He celebrates the spread of an ecological consciousness but laments the disappearance of danger and novelty, and the way that the wilderness has become a hobby, or even a vocation.
Francis, 82, urged young people not to be disillusioned by the sexual abuse scandal, but to work with the overwhelming majority of priests and other clergy faithful to their vocation.
The United States kept some semblance of decent order around the globe for decades but has given up this "noblest vocation" because of a combination of toxic politics and technology.
The gay Christians I interviewed stick to an older idea of vocation: the call to obey a higher will that is not your own, one that may leave earthly desires ungratified.
On January 28th, in this febrile atmosphere, Max Weber made one of the most important contributions to modern political theory, in a lecture titled "Politics as a Vocation" ("Politik als Beruf").
That her calling, her story, her singleness, her chastity, her marriage, her husband, her vocation, her apartment, her house, her childlessness, her kids, her body, her health, her work is enough.
"The idea of dedicating my virginity to God first came to me at 19603 as a close friend from high school discovered his vocation to be a Catholic priest," Byers says.
He dropped out of high school, later working as a factory technician and garnering knowledge of robotics, but it was during school that the seed of his future vocation was sown.
If successful, the En+ IPO may mark a turnaround for the London Stock Exchange — and a renewed western vocation for Russia's capital-hungry companies, which hitherto looked towards Asian financial centers.
A vocation involves promises to some ideal, it reveals itself in a sense of enjoyment as you undertake its tasks and it can't be easily quit when setbacks and humiliations occur.
I know, because we traveled up and down the whole lot six times in the course of my interview — during which I discovered a man who has clearly found his vocation.
And writing as a vocation — despite keeping a diary — has to elbow its way past odd jobs, favors-that-end-up-paying, retail wage slavery and, for a short period, art.
Women have just as much responsibility in the church as men, whether that be in a function of helping in pastoral duties or answering a vocation to family or religious life.
Although the majority of occupations were part of a cluster that was similar to their SOC category, there were some points that fell into a different cluster on the vocation map.
By taking up painting as a personal obsession and vocation that provide its own inherent incentives and rewards, these artists remind us about the deep pleasures and high cost of independence.
After studying for two years at the Integrative Institute of Nutrition, a licensed vocation school, she quit a job in marketing and apprenticed for a few years with alternative medicine practitioners.
All three issues were among the subjects debated at the gathering, officially titled "Young People, Faith and Discernment of Vocation" and attended by some 300 bishops, priests, nuns and lay participants.
As an educational framework, vocation might focus on an individual's desires and choices, but it need not do so in a way that is blind to social ideologies and structural inequality.
His vocation as an academic made my father a direct target of the new regime, and so — like so many other families — we fled Iran and began again in the United States.
The subject has come up in speeches on the floor, in small group discussions and at news conferences by participants in the gathering, officially titled "Young People, Faith and Discernment of Vocation".
Francis made the comments in a book-length interview with Spanish priest Fernando Prado called "The Strength of Vocation", in which he discusses the challenges of being a priest or nun today.
"Your 'fake news' t-shirts aren't funny, @Newseum(.) They make a mockery of the reporters, whose name you have inscribed on your walls, who died for their vocation," reporter Leigh Giangreco tweeted.
Since he is a person who, by vocation, believes in the chain of command, he probably won't be willing to stand up to his superior, the person with whom the problem lies.
Then, in 2005, ACE began to promote vocations by taking interested teachers on a pilgrimage, and it started the annual Vocation Day — a mixture of worship services and question-and-answer sessions.
For example, raise your hands if you've ever looked at the word PROVOCATION, read it as "PRO VOCATION," and thought that it would make a dandy revealer for a theme about professions.
In this bizarre understanding of the world, the West's will to exist is almost exhausted, whereas Russia still has the energy and vocation to form a mighty Slavic-Turkic state, spanning Eurasia.
The Calov volumes also provide insight into Bach's professional and personal concerns, showing that he understood himself less as a modern artist than as a preacher who was following his religious vocation.
She talks about attending Howard University, where she had a good time ("I was loose," she says with a smile) and began to turn her lifelong love of reading into a vocation.
Hana's grief over her father's death earlier in the war; Caravaggio's mourning for his lost vocation; Singh's terrifying exploits with the bomb squad; the nameless patient's pride in his memories of love.
The title "reverend" — and Dr. King's prominent vocation as a Baptist preacher — is too often assigned as a footnote of history rather than a preamble to all that he was and is.
The Coen brothers' homage to old Hollywood features Josh Brolin as a high-powered fixer experiencing both a crisis of faith and a crisis of vocation during a few particularly screwy days.
China has faced growing international opprobrium for setting up what it calls vocation training centers to combat extremism in Xinjiang, home to the Uighur people, which many Western countries view as internment camps.
"One may not name a single vocation in either the artistic or business side of its progress in which women are not conspicuously engaged," wrote Robert Grau in Motion Picture Supplement in 1915.
Francis, 81, made the comments in a book-length interview with Spanish priest Fernando Prado called "The Strength of Vocation", in which he discusses the challenges of being a priest or nun today.
The report, by the KonTerra group, a consultancy, makes clear that many employees regarded their job as a "vocation or life cause" that provided them with "a compelling sense of purpose and meaning".
We owe it to those who've made the ultimate sacrifice to recognize that though there are exceptions, police forces are predominantly made up of good people with a vocation to serve and protect.
" The document states that he had to spend "diverse sums of money" on his recovery and that his injuries caused him to "lose substantial periods of time from his normal vocation and activities.
He was a devoted practitioner of the high style, committed to a loftily intellectual sense of the poetic vocation, with an encyclopedic range of historical and literary references embedded in syntactically knotty lines.
However, that meant placing the singular PRO VOCATION in the center of the new 15x15 grid, losing the long downs and forcing the two Utah-shaped black blocks on the left and right.
But all this texture needs the melodic anchor provided by lithe power contralto Hawa Diabate, daughter of the renowned Kassé Diabate in a culture where music is a vocation passed generation to generation.
"There are some contemporary artists for whom art for art's sake is not only not enough, it actually amounts to a kind of betrayal of their vocation," Mr. Schama says in the series.
NEW DELHI — Muthuvel Karunanidhi, who parlayed his vocation as a prolific writer of films about the downtrodden into a political career that challenged the upper caste's hold on Indian politics, died on Aug.
Since this is in effect an origin story, a certain amount of time needs to be spent on explaining how Rapp arrived at his vocation and showing how he was trained in it.
The more someone writes, the more suspicious I am of his credentials—as if this person had neglected his actual vocation in favor of the meretricious enterprise of putting words on the page.
It was a joke in our family that my mother and Muriel Spark's great fictional creation, Miss Jean Brodie, shared a certain temperament, as well as a profession that was really a vocation.
He apologized to his family and the Holy See, and appealed for leniency by saying the episode was just a "bump in the road" of a priestly vocation he loved and wanted to continue.
This shows some promise in the opening episode, before the mystery kicks in — it's interesting that the reasons for Alex's reticence, which could stem from his sexuality or his vocation, can't be sorted out.
"Builders of Peace, Promotes of Life," in Bogota, "Reconciliation with God, among Colombians and with Nature" Villavicencio, "The Christian Vocation and Apostolate" in Medellin, and "The Dignity of People and Human Rights" in Cartagena.
She was only 10 years old when the elder Eythorsson, who formally established the Iceland Glaciological Society in 1950, passed away, but she followed his vocation and today works at the Iceland Meteorological Office.
Given that he's praised "the spirit of enterprise" in the modern economy and called business "a noble vocation," though, Google's work may fall on either the "noble" or the "unbridled" side of the spectrum.
To her, it represents her vocation as an artist; to me it symbolizes something harsher, which is the vulnerability of the female body to attack and the difficulty of assimilating the experience of objectification.
But most of the categories aren't even about physique; the only sexiest superlative that's about a particular body part is Sexiest Legs, while most focus on vocation (Sexiest Actress, Sexiest Athlete) or facial feature.
But to believe in the future as these photographers did — to have an artistic vocation greater than narcissistic individualism or ceaseless critique — appears more enviable than pitiable in a new century of downscaled dreams.
As it unwinds, you see Mr. Kiyosaki, who served in the military, shift from a job as a Xerox salesman to his vocation as an investor, ending up squarely on his "rich dad's" path.
"This urgent need leads me to urge all bishops, especially those in Latin America... to be more generous in encouraging those who display a missionary vocation to opt for the Amazon region," he wrote.
"We are professionals, public servants who by vocation and training pursue the policies of the President, regardless of who holds that office or what party they affiliate with," she said of the foreign service.
A book coming out next week called La Fuerza de la vocacion (The Strength of Vocation) quotes Pope Francis as saying homosexuality in the clergy "is something that worries" him, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
David Novak is stepping down as Yum Brands executive chairman this month to pursue what he calls a new "vocation" — teaching business leaders and everyday people the power of recognizing the people in their lives.
Clint Barton/Hawkeye, who was missing from Infinity War on account of being on house arrest after the events of Captain America: Civil War, has a new hairdo, a new vocation, and a new weapon.
"Jerusalem is a unique city, sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims, and it has a special vocation to peace," the post's caption read, which depicts the Pope reciting a prayer on the city's Western Wall.
Parents who push their children to experiment with different activities during childhood increase the likelihood that their children will discover an innate talent or something they enjoy doing, which could lead to a lifelong vocation.
This is Cave the artist, the alchemist, the stylist and performer who, though broken and bloodied—the director describes him as "a battered monument"—has to go on laboring in his vocation until he dies.
Altus Strategies listed in August to raise funds for its vocation as an African-focused project generator, which aspires to sell on its assets once they are established or find venture partners to develop them.
Peter's loyalty to his friends — a sweet, spirited crew embodying the tolerance, skepticism and earnestness that characterize their generation, as well as some of its less appealing aspects — is sometimes at odds with his vocation.
You have to suspend your own needs and desires in order to service this vocation: I know what it means to be running your life in a way so that this higher power is serviced.
Dick's devotion to his wife and their two daughters is genuine, but what motivates him above all is the study and acquisition of power, a vocation in which he has Lynne's fierce and unstinting support.
But because young Singaporeans have not embraced hawker culture as a vocation to the same extent as their parents, the nomination could be a much-needed way for the government to raise the cuisine's profile.
"You know, that cartoon is really correct — Wile E. Coyote and the real thing are not that much different," said Mr. Vincenti, a barber by vocation, but also a die-hard advocate for urban coyotes.
But the Pentagon is now telling the world that fighting IS and all their like-minded nutjob brethren is going to have to be more of a part-time hobby rather than a full-time vocation.
Despite still being active in one of Europe's top leagues – not to mention the wrong side of 40, if you believe some reports – he threw himself into his new vocation and quickly dismissed his juju ways.
Kicking down the barriers between audience and artist has been Iggy's lifelong vocation—"I felt it was important to make contact at every show" he says in Jim Jarmusch's recent documentary on The Stooges, Gimme Danger.
Also, it's a bit glib and it's a bit advertising – I think my true vocation should've been advertising, because I worked out that this season is more Lord of the Rings than Lord of the Flies.
From her work as a teaching assistant in the Indianapolis Public Schools, as events coordinator for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Indianapolis, and through her vocation as a esthetician, Jackie saw beauty and value in everyone.
Her parents' vocation took them first to Trivandrum in India — where Celia spent her early childhood — and then to a religious community in Exmoor, in southwest England, from where the sisters were sent to boarding school.
A career is a job you do as long as the benefits outweigh the costs; a vocation involves falling in love with something, having a conviction about it and making it part of your personal identity.
For gallery visitors who find today's dominant Conceptualism to be thin gruel, these kind of refreshing throwbacks define Provincetown — as does the sense that art here is less a vocation than a devoutly held lifelong calling.
If you're the parent of young children or in a vocation that involves kids, like a school teacher or caretaker, Lydia of the blog Thrifty Frugal Mom recommends hitting up Dollar Tree for cheap, fun stickers. 
Her focus, though, is on helping her clients figure out what they want to do and how to go about doing it — particularly if the vocation they are in is not what they had in mind.
But consider these facts: Rogers was ordained a Presbyterian pastor whose vocation was to minister to children through the airwaves, and he kept up his ordination, appearing before church elders to renew it through the years.
One of seven children born to a forest ranger, Adityanath, born Ajay Singh Bisht, found his vocation in college as an activist in the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a right-wing Hindu organization.
The pace of space development at that time was reckless, and while the men who paid the price—astronauts and cosmonauts—understood the dangers of their vocation, these deaths remain a painful reminder of the costs.
Perhaps Kirk had a vocation for nostalgia: In his early 34.953s, he worked at Greenfield Village — Henry Ford's "living history" theme park — where he did a variety of jobs, including playing the role of old-time preacher.
The Guillemot Brothers "will take the necessary measures to avoid a creeping takeover by people who could challenge Gameloft's strategy and global vocation to the detriment of the company and its shareholders," according to the AMF statement.
A combination of his religious upbringing and work background — Ludwig said he was involved in a sting operation involving human trafficking and often found himself offering informal counseling to troubled families — steered him into his current vocation.
"If they think targeting black women who have committed themselves to this party as an avocation and not a vocation and have given more than they've gotten, is a smart idea, then God bless them," Moore said.
Lee, too, wanted to write but had little time to pursue the vocation until a pair of Capote's friends, Michael and Joy Brown, gave her a Christmas gift: They would pay all her expenses for a year.
He's made a vocation out of inserting himself into other people's lives — he's the best at it, in fact — but now, the wall he'd so carefully maintained between the personal and the professional has been irrevocably breached.
But I'd point to something deeper: Over the past few decades, thousands of good people have gone into public service, but they have found themselves enmeshed in a system that drains them of their sense of vocation.
He is struggling against that because he has a vocation to be a writer and he attaches himself to an older writer, a spiritual father —although he's attached lovingly to his real father, just as Roth was.
He looked through the directories for public New York high schools until he found the one that matched his prospective vocation: the High School of Fashion Industries, located around the corner from where we were now talking.
In 1903, when the school opened, its purpose was straightforward: to provide the children of fishermen and farmers with basic literacy and math, enough to take over their parents' vocation, said Debbie Hughes, the school's head teacher.
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Encouraging national service will provide a talented labor pool that will help rebuild our nation at a reasonable cost, and will provide young people with a vocation and a glimpse of what the wider world is like.
Those laws allow health care providers to do what is best for our patients, even when larger cultural fads and trends demand we act in ways that violate our vocation to heal people instead of hurt them.
Nine in 10 Catholic religious orders asked at least one person to delay his or her application because of student loans and 70 percent have turned away at least one person because of student debt, according to a 2013 study by the National Religious Vocation Conference, an organization that studies religious orders in the U.S. Some religious orders provide stipends - typically $15,000 to $20,000 - to prospective members pay off student loan debt if the orders can afford it, said Paul Bednarczyk, the National Religious Vocation Conference's executive director.
"It is very hard for me to advise you about taking up aviation as a vocation inasmuch as I do not know you," she writes in a letter to be put up for sale by The Raab Collection.
Born on June 24, 1923, in St.-Genis-Laval, near Lyon, he was the fifth and, by his account, the most shy of seven children from a bourgeois family that expected him to take up a respectable vocation.
Bergotte, a terminally ill novelist who has had a decisive influence on the narrator's writing vocation, remembers that "A View of the Delft" happens to be on view in Paris, on loan from the Mauritshuis in The Hague.
Too little time spent on patients, too much time spent on electronic records, and the general sense that medicine has become more a profit-driven business than a noble vocation have driven patient dissatisfaction to a fever pitch.
Frederick Lindemann, a physicist, became Churchill's "on tap" expert and once described him as a "scientist who had missed his vocation," said Andrew Nahum, who organized an exhibition on Churchill and science at the Science Museum in London.
This was when I saw my grandparents' brothers and sisters and the majority of them were priests and religious sisters, so this is where I think I fell in love with the church and found my religious vocation.
I discussed why women should have dignity as they serve their time and how states can reform occupational licenses to make it possible for a woman with a record to take up a vocation after serving her time.
Instead of consigning himself to Walter Mitty-like reveries while pursuing his vocation as a concrete contractor, Norman soon resolved to seek out adventures of his own — to become a nonfictional version of his death-defying cartoon hero.
Recent essays by scholars including the theologian William Cavanaugh, who describes himself as working on "the Church's encounter with social, political, and economic realities," squarely situate the issue of vocation in the long history of capitalism and exploitation.
"This urgent need leads me to urge all bishops, especially those in Latin America ... to be more generous in encouraging those who display a missionary vocation to opt for the Amazon region," Francis wrote, according to the news service.
And it's not out of the question that you can make a living or some supplemental income doing so – it's possible to intertwine your artistic pursuits with your vocation through a full-time gig, a side hustle or both.
Among Mr Schulz's more resonant talking points are Germany's internationalist, European vocation—he defines himself as the anti-Trump—and his opposition to Mrs Merkel's insistence that German defence spending eventually hit the NATO target of 2% of GDP.
Weber died of Spanish flu in 1920, but "Politics as a Vocation", and the newspaper articles he wrote at the same time, remained touchstones for German debates on democracy and constitutional law for the rest of the 20th century.
Lucy is a writer — words are her vocation — and yet she, like Olive, hovers at the edge of the sayable, attempting to articulate experiences that have never been and, without the force of her will, might never be expressed.
Francis said a Mass for about 10,000 people in St. Peter's Basilica to ceremoniously close the Synod of Bishops, officially titled "Young People, Faith and Discernment of Vocation" and attended by some 300 bishops, priests, nuns and lay participants.
In this little allegory, only one figure coördinates the whole, marries and annuls the seasons, summons the dancers and moves them around in the phantom walls of the dreaming architect: the poet, whose vocation is fulfilled merely by imagining.
The religious vocation, in the service of others, is essentially what her courageous heroine Fidelma undertakes, in the midst of much struggle, choosing "not to look at the prison wall of life, but to look up at the sky."
Mr. Harper, already deep into Keats and the Romantics, began to see poetry as a vocation, an inclination that hardened into conviction after he was accepted into the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he earned an M.F.A. degree in 1963.
A Germany that fully accepted and expressed its European vocation is indispensable to any overall progress towards revitalizing the EU and NATO and the process of European integration from which it has been perhaps the chief beneficiary since 1945.
When I felt the calling to be ordained as a teenager, I resolved to push my sexuality as deep down from view as I could for fear that it would hinder me from entering the vocation I dreamed of.
One of the major problems is that the Church has taught that lay people, or the flock, are fallible and the clergy infallible, because their vocation transcended the human and supported only the spiritual side of man's nature. Untrue.
My students read C.S. Lewis, but also Dorothy Day and Malcolm X. A 2018 NetVUE conference, focused on mentoring students of color, explicitly sought to contextualize the personal concept of vocation within the political structures of race and religion.
Having arrived at painting as a vocation only after his own troubled presidency, Bush has developed a style that invokes such painters as Marlene Dumas, Jules de Balincourt, Dana Schutz, and Sam McKinniss, while emerging as a wholly his own.
VC is an outlier business, a vocation premised on volatility, but the fact that highly-funded companies aren't clearly outpacing their cash-restricted competitors shows there is a point of diminishing returns for capital even among the very best companies.
Under the direction of instructor Sumeet Sharma, a marketing expert who describes himself as "an employee at an MNC by profession and an entrepreneur by vocation," you'll learn how to master SEO over the course of six hours of content.
He then trained as an auto-electrician, a vocation that explains his affinity with technology, before heading to Bible school and a career as an evangelical preacher and part-time public speaker, a not uncommon path in a deeply devout nation.
By the end, her father's devotion to heaven doesn't seem any stranger than her own obsessions with stanzas and tweets; her mother's sacrifices for her father's vocation don't seem any less admirable than her own husband's life as an amanuensis.
" (column, May 24), argues that Hillary Clinton's unpopularity stems from her lack of interests to supplement her professional focus on public service: "Even a socially good vocation can swallow you up and make you lose a sense of your own voice.
But I rejected this even as I thought it, it wasn't my vocation, it was just something I had done, a way I had passed the time; don't be so pious, something said in me, and something else cringed away.
Funny though the play is, the surprising and rather lovely thing about "Locusts Have No King" — receiving its world premiere in David Mendizábal's excellently cast production at Intar — is that it never treats its characters or their vocation as punch lines.
Her upper-middle-class family (her father was a former architect and a highly placed civil servant, her mother a distant relative of the rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard) enthusiastically supported her vocation and that of an older sister, Edma.
One of the distinctions she guards most anxiously is between the eremitic dedication of the true writer (for whom art is a great and necessarily lonely vocation) and the worldliness of the fake writer (who yearns for success, audi­ences, fame).
From his little known cover of "Rye Whiskey" (first available as a flexi-disk insert in Reflex Magazine) to the bar jukebox standard rager, "Brother My Cup Is Empty," Nick Cave sings about hard liquor fueled oblivion like it's a vocation.
Mikio Naruse allows for a nuanced matriarchal depiction in his 1956 black-and-white drama Flowing, an everyday depiction of geishas in the mundane part of their lives and the generational vocation it becomes for one mother and daughter duo.
Charles M. Blow I know that there are things of graver consequence in Donald Trump's regime than his diction, but as a person whose vocation concerns him with language, I am simply appalled by Trump's savage mauling of that language.
By focusing on young farmers in particular, Chipotle (CMG) hopes both to target a demographic that may be especially interested in the type of ethical, sustainable farming Chipotle wants, and help make sure that farming itself remains a sustainable vocation.
The Cameroon trips were brought into being in collaboration with Hope's project for the exploration of vocation, a campuswide effort to have students consider the meaning and purpose of their lives to a degree unusual even at this actively Christian institution.
China has faced growing international opprobrium for setting up what it calls vocation training centers to combat extremism in Xinjiang, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur people who speak a Turkic language, which many Western countries view as internment camps.
The understanding of the distinct role of the laity in the mission of the church, the transformation of the temporal order and its sanctification was developed further after the Second Vatican Council by Pope Saint John Paul II. In his apostolic exhortation, Christifideles Laici, he connected the vocation of the laity in the world to living out of the Universal Call to Holiness spoken of in Lumen Gentium: "The vocation of the lay faithful to holiness implies that life according to the Spirit expresses itself in a particular way in their involvement in temporal affairs and in their participation in earthy activities" (17).
Thanks to the industry's ever-evolving perspective on just what the career of a model looks like, any preconceived notions of said vocation being short-lived, not worth the money, and only for the young and beautiful (and white) are long gone.
Though he was ostensibly a writer of science-fiction and fantasy novels (he published 30 works in those genres, so this was hardly a lie), the house was "seething with sexuality," and there were rumors throughout the county about his true vocation.
They have provoked a dispute that gets to the heart of the culture wars: a debate over the meaning of vocation that reveals the tension between modern assumptions about living a full life and older ideas about the sacrifices God's calling requires.
On sprawling, defining themes like the vocation of the state, the meaning of nationhood, the interaction of public and private spheres, and the roles of pluralism, globalisation and citizenship in modern societies it has no continuity and is irredeemably at odds with itself.
" In Hong Kong, farming and democracy have become intertwined," DeWolf notes, charting how farmers like Tam have made their vocation into an act of political resistance as mainland China controls Hong Kong's supply chains, making homegrown, local food more important than ever.
As the movie pointed out (which I recently rewatched ), he went from jail to working with the FBI under the terms of a court order, but he stayed there decades after the court order expired because he found a vocation he loved.
And it's not really a bad one, either (there are worse ways to spend five hours of your life), but it is a major missed opportunity for a program to consider the past, present, and future of its principal setting and vocation.
Listening to these stories, I'm reminded of the way entrepreneurship puts us in touch with many of life's greatest challenges: our anxieties around money, our fear of failure, and our search for a vocation that's worth putting blood, sweat, and tears behind.
But are medical professionals, whose vocation calls for a sense gravity and professionalism similar to law enforcement or public servants, the right group to be "real" — to share their most vulnerable moments on a platform where their patients can easily find them?
She says her mom never really understood Freedman's devotion to pictures and the vocation it made for her, but she was a good sport during a visit to New York when the two ran into some police officers Freedman knew along Fifth Avenue.
"This urgent need leads me to urge all bishops, especially those in Latin America, not only to promote prayer for priestly vocations, but also to be more generous in encouraging those who display a missionary vocation to opt for the Amazon region," he wrote.
" (Thus the image of Jesus as waifish, devoid of pride.) Later, when bodybuilding emerges as a vocation in the 20th century, Kunitz discusses the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk and his idea that "the trend toward bodybuilding is itself an expression of the spirit of capitalism, . . .
A Macklemore and Ryan Lewis: This Unruly Mess I've Made (self-released)Since the only bad thing I know about this diligent, talented, sincere Evergreen College alum is his post-"Thrift Shop" stage gear, I consider his critical disrepute a disgrace to my vocation.
" He warned, prophetically, that this "great betrayal" of their philosophical vocation, along with their "desire to abase the values of knowledge before the values of action" had put mankind on the road to "the greatest and most perfect war ever seen in the world.
The great man's vocation as a wandering oracle was possible because Anna, who bore five children (only four lived to adulthood), ran the household with a sure hand, hosting fugitive slaves, far-flung relatives and others who turned up at the front door in need.
Apparently, in the early decades of the 19th century, an artistic community of portrait painters began to emerge in New York City, making painting a legitimate vocation and spawning important organizations, such as the National Academy of Design, which established an art school to train emerging painters.
Armed with the education and encouragement they had given me, I boldly set my eyes on college, graduate school and the sort of vocation no one from my family had ever known: to get paid for my ideas and creativity rather than for backbreaking or unfulfilling labor.
Research suggests that many of these youngsters see membership not as a vocation but as a shortcut to stable employment (many jobs in public service and government-linked companies are reserved for party members), or simply as one more way of proving their superiority over classmates.
" AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES… "There could be no greater irony: For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty – state craft).
But he shows us the seeds of her vocation: the observational gifts she developed as a housemaid; the freedom she felt, as an orphan, to invent an identity for herself; her love of books facilitated by her access to the library in the house where she worked.
Andrew Dominik's film, One More Time With Feeling, documents Cave's attempts to finish the record while experiencing the agony, depression, and loss of self common to anyone who undergoes such a trauma—the difference being that Cave, in keeping with his vocation, was alchemizing it into art.
The children's drawings and other images surrounding Renée speak to her vocation as a teacher, but they also insinuate a fear of motherhood, which is made explicit in a letter she wrote to her husband, reproduced by Dinnerstein in the main panel, recounting an alarming pregnancy dream.
In other words, when pursuing a vocation, it's better to let your personal passions—and crucially, the type of people you enjoy working with—guide your decision-making, as opposed to focusing solely on salary, lest you end up in a permanent state of existential indifference.
He had small roles in several Broadway productions in the early 1950s as well as a few television appearances, but that vocation soon fell by the wayside (though he did appear in the 1968 movie "Rachel, Rachel," directed by his fellow Actors Studio member Paul Newman).
When a moment of mistaken identity gives Daniel the chance to turn his life around, it initially looks as if he's giving in to opportunism; in the fullness of time, however, his deception begins to seem more and more like a genuine vocation coming into mystical focus.
These were men and women who, in some cases, were professionally inclined toward facts — many of them were scientists, a vocation they adopted, even before they embraced dissidence, out of a conscious effort to move away from any field that could be distorted by Communist ideology.
" He went on to say he doesn't think the word "slut" is a slur against women, that he's not opposed to women in academia because both his wife and daughter are in the field, and that "academia is a vocation more compatible with motherhood than most jobs.
But nearly 70 percent of schools that participated in the Program for the Theological Exploration of Vocation, a major initiative that ran from 2000 to 2009, saw their graduation rates increase, a significantly higher rate of growth than occurred in a random sample of peer institutions.
As Mr Ventura adds, religious groups in Western countries have up to now managed to carve out an area of exemption by convincing some judges that devoting one's life to a faith-based institution is not employment in the usual sense but rather a kind of disinterested vocation.
In Erica, the dying artist who teaches Elizabeth to draw -- to see -- she meets a twin devotee to a higher calling but begins to feel what it might be like to have a vocation to express, rather than repress, herself (before mercy-choking Erica to death with a paintbrush).
When you like what you do, you will devote more time to doing it: more time honing your skills, more time reading to learn everything about your vocation, more time building relationships with other success-minded people within your industry or field, and more time devoted to improving yourself.
The daughter of feminists "before the word was invented," she grew up in the foothills of the Himalayas, in Dehradun, where her father was a forest conservator and her mother a farmer—a vocation she chose by choice after fleeing Pakistan and leaving a high-level government job.
For one, certain aspects of the play, such as Horatio's true vocation or the intricacies of the Ophelia/Hamlet relationship, remain ambiguous—both by design and by sheer chance—and the very act of translating the work into another medium necessitates and crystallizes one's interpretation of these events.
While there, he noticed what he describes as a parallel between enslaved Africans in America and caged, branded animals, which led him to veganism and began what would be his vocation in fighting for food justice, and addressing obesity and sugar as joint epidemics in lower-income communities.
So if one had a certain social conscience of the problem in countries where there were enormous inequalities, well, many times that young man with a literary vocation would ask himself, what is the point of writing if I am Peruvian, if I am Chilean, if I am Colombian?
The volume is, at once, an enthralling account of her discovery of her vocation, and a gifted teacher's guidebook to the secret lives of plants — a book that should do for botany what Stephen Jay Gould's writings did for paleontology, and what Oliver Sacks's essays did for neurology.
Carroll explores the myths and pressures behind pronatalism — the pervasive idea that everyone should have children — to make the argument that we'd all be better off if having kids were considered not an inevitability or a duty, but a vocation best suited for those who consider it a true calling.
The only thing that would have made this set absolutely perfect is if Mr. Pepper could have found a vocation at 57A that was singular like the rest of the theme entries (or made another entry plural as well), but it's a very entertaining theme, so I'll give that a pass.
It is a case study of what a person with an extraordinary will, an unwavering sense of vocation, and a huge talent—as well as privilege and devoted friends—could and could not do about the fact that the defining feature of his gift was also the source of his suffering.
This is despite the fact that most of them are not well-known institutions that can trade on their brand names — "I had never heard of half these schools!" one administrator said of an early meeting of a group that is now called NetVUE, the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education.
Cardinal Macharski, who stepped down as archbishop in 2005, after the death of John Paul II, often spoke of his vocation to serve those in need as rooted in his experiences in World War II. "It was obvious that we needed to help one another," he said in television interview in 2001.
While the Chicago chapter sheds valuable light on Obama's connection with black residents and his developing sense of vocation, many of the other sections that try to chronicle his day-to-day life feel extraneous and absurdly long-winded, as if Garrow wanted to include every last scrap of information he'd unearthed.
"This is where my vocation has taken me and this is where I'm prepared to suffer, just as Jesus Christ taught us to suffer for others," said Mr. Gallego, as he threw wood onto a stove by his rudimentary bedroom, next to the altar, where he sleeps on a plank without a mattress.
"I think that only if you are a black child growing up in the inner city lacking the kind of resources, lacking the kinds of images and models for mentoring, modeling, vocation and career, can you actually understand what that name on that sign can mean to a child in this community," he said.
Her engrossing new memoir, "Lab Girl," is at once a thrilling account of her discovery of her vocation and a gifted teacher's road map to the secret lives of plants — a book that, at its best, does for botany what Oliver Sacks's essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay Gould's writings did for paleontology.
After all, they are already moral exemplars thanks to their vocation and their sacrifices; whatever small wrongs they might commit are mitigated by the fact that they are out there on the front lines, saving the unfortunate when they could be selfishly making a good living in the comfort and safety of the first world.

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