Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.

I never thought that I would treasure doing my job, and I have reached that point. I've gotten to a point where it's like the priesthood: this is what I was called to do.

You've got to find a sweet spot where you skill meets your passion, meets your job.

I'm very lucky that I love what I do. I've never thought of it as work. I've never done it for the money.

Every day, I love what I do and I think it's a gift and privilege to love your job.

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.

My career is my whole life, so if I'm not happy with that, it affects everything else.

I feel like I'm in the right profession.

I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.

By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work a) that you need most to do and b) the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement b).

In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.

Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.

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 majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life’s purpose every day.

I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?

When you love something it's not a job anymore.

I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.

Your career is what you're paid for. Your calling is what you're made for.

Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.

I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

I was asked by a student what my most significant accomplishment was at National Geographic, after thirty years, and I said that my career came to an appropriate close, and I still loved photography. Not everybody who spends their career at anything ends up fascinated and involved with it.

If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.