Avocation Quotes: top 27 famous quotes about Avocation

Avocation Quotes & Sayings

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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

Walking is a pastime rather than an avocation. — Rebecca Solnit

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

If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. — Steve Maraboli

I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan. — Kat Dennings

There are more 'Don'ts' in golf than there are in any other avocation in life. — Arnold Haultain

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. — George Bernard Shaw

Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits. — David Lynch

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. — Phyllis McGinley

For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life. — Wynn Bullock

We humans
are so tortured
by not properly guessing
what will make us happy. — Atticus Poetry

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich. — Graham Joyce

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

Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas. — John C. Maxwell

Trees have roots, Jews have legs. — Isaac Deutscher

Chicken butt fried in grease want a piece — Christopher Nicole

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching. — Christina Baker Kline

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

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

I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices. — Tim Daly

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

This approach [solving easiest problems first, during the test] works for some people, mostly because anything works for some people. — Barbara Oakley

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation,
As my two eyes make one in sight. — Robert Frost

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity. — Elsa Maxwell

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars — Curtis LeMay

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us. — James Brown

I think people found out I'm just like anybody else. I've got problems, too. — Dale Murphy