"It's sort of good to see your..." - Quote by John Updike
It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever.
More by John Updike
“You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.”
“The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.”
“Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.”
More on Work
“It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.”
“I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.”
“Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.”
More on Vocation
“Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.”
“I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!”
“It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.”