Quote by Elvis Costello
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. - Elvis Costell

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. – Elvis Costello

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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. – E. M. Forster

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. – Oscar Wilde

People dont choose their careers; they are engulfed by them. – John Dos Passos

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. – John Dryden

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