James Hillman Quotes

I feel like there are some careers that do have a higher meaning.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.

A job is something you do for money. Your life's work is done for a bigger purpose... And when you manage to find that work - that's when it starts feeling like play.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job - not a calling.

As frustrating as it gets, at times, and as frustrating as it is, at times, I don't think I've ever considered doing something else, or not wanted to do it anymore. To me, it's just the greatest job. It's a good fit for who I am and what I want to be.

Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

A career is a job that has gone on too long.

My newspaper job … is my identity.

Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies.

The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

I received my calling and accepted it at around 18.

I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.

He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

A job is a job. And I like to work.

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

I like my job but it's not who I am.

Any time I think out loud, 'I can't believe this is my job,' and remember I am a very lucky duck. Whether marshalling hundreds of zombies, doing crazy stunts or shooting big music numbers, I just feel fortunate to have made my passion my vocation.

I'm okay for things like theater and stuff but for film, I just didn't think in the right way and I didn't like the business. So I was unhappy. So I was in something that was moderately related to my, what I call my calling or my life's path, which is writing, but it wasn't like the right fit.

My life is my work. My work is my life