Quotes About Avocation

#1. The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

Phyllis McGinley

#2. My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.

Jonas Salk

#3. My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation,
As my two eyes make one in sight.

Robert Frost

#4. I'm Lily Ivory, and this is my friend Sailor."
"You sail?"
"No. It's my name, not my avocation.

Juliet Blackwell

#5. What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?

Aldo Leopold

#6. The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

Nelson Algren

#7. If I were to ever have a full-fledged vocation, as opposed to a half-assed avocation, I needed to love it and, in my experience, it isn't always easy to figure out what you love.

Marisa De Los Santos

#8. The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.

H.L. Mencken

#9. To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

Dorothea Dix

#10. The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions ...

William Osler

#11. what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an 'appointment') which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?

George Eliot

#12. For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.

Wynn Bullock

#13. If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.

Milton Friedman

#14. Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

Elsa Maxwell

#15. Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

Curtis LeMay

#16. There is no business, no avocation, whatever, which will not permit a man, who has the inclination, to give a little time, every day, to study.

Daniel Albert Wyttenbach

#17. Walking is a pastime rather than an avocation.

Rebecca Solnit

#18. Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I've always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation.

Susan Vreeland

#19. There are more 'Don'ts' in golf than there are in any other avocation in life.

Arnold Haultain

#20. In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.

Alfred North Whitehead

#21. Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

Christina Baker Kline

#22. The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.

William Safire

#23. My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

Anne Rice

#24. Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that pressed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.

Vladimir Nabokov

#25. My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

John Barrymore

#26. If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance. John

Maya Angelou

#27. Without a vision the people perish.

Ronald Reagan

#28. To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.

Michelle Obama

#29. Part. The sin God rebukes is not trying and failing, but failing to try. Trying, failing, and trying again is called learning.

Henry Cloud

#30. Elizabeth Hamilton! What are you doing riding that horse? Nick's going to be so angry with you!" "Nick's not around," Elizabeth said tartly. "Well, you'd better not break your neck. We've enough problems as it is." "I won't.

Debra Holland

#31. Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.

Plato

#32. We've been programmed to think meat is protein and you need meat. No, we are not cavemen. There are plenty other ways.

Christian Serratos