A Quote by David Jason

My desperation to be on the stage and perform was like a vocation, a religious calling.

David Jason

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Calling Desperation Like Perform Religious Stage Vocation

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David Jason
English - Actor
Born: February 2, 1940

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

Derek Walcott

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice ?out there? calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice ?in here? calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.

Thomas Merton

If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away.

Geoffrey Zakarian

Once I asked my counsellor for advice about my vocation. I asked, 'How can I know if God is calling me and for what he is calling me?' He answered, 'You will know by your happiness. If you are happy with the idea that God calls you to serve him and your neighbour, this will be the proof of your vocation.'

Mother Teresa

When you're on-stage, you're expected to perform in the bar business. You shake hands. You smile. You're all positive energy: you add to your environment. When you walk in the door to the back of the house, that's like a stage door. You're off-stage now.

Jon Taffer

This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.

R. C. Sproul

I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.

Sam Smith

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

Edward Hirsch

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

Joshua Lederberg

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Michael Moriarty

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

Cornel West

I like to leave all of my soul on the stage where I perform.

Eric Benet

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

Diane Kruger

Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.