Quotes about calling from interviews: how remarkable people found their work and how to know it is yours.
As a documentarian, I feel a responsibility to preserve the history of Black music and culture
A classic work of sociology on how the religious idea of calling, and the protestant's anxiety about his own salvation, unexpectedly gave rise to a work ethic that became the spiritual foundation of modern capitalism.
A young writer returns to his provincial hometown after finishing university — a film about how hard it is for someone full of ambition and contempt for other people's compromises to notice he's already begun repeating…
As an artist, I see my role as serving humanity and raising my voice for justice
A philosophical and sociological inquiry into the craftsman's relationship to his work — how the desire to do something well for its own sake shapes a person's character, and why the modern world of work keeps getting…
A chamber drama about how easily rigor is mistaken for cruelty, and the hunger for greatness for self-destruction.
Nobody believed in us at first. We just believed in ourselves and the music.
A neurosurgeon's account of learning, at thirty-six, that he had terminal lung cancer — an attempt to work out, from the inside, what gives a life meaning once time stops being an unlimited resource.
A portrait of a young man trying to live by strict rules of integrity inside a system where integrity itself is a professional and social liability.
I've always tried to be a good human being. That's what matters.
A psychologist synthesizes research into states of deep absorption in an activity and lays out the conditions under which everyday work can produce genuine satisfaction rather than mere distraction or exhaustion.
A portrait of racing driver Ayrton Senna assembled entirely from archival footage, with not a single new on-camera interview — a rare case of a documentary that plays like a finished drama.
A melody comes to me like someone is singing it to me. It's magic.
A research report on what separated companies that turned mediocre results into decades of outstanding performance from closely matched competitors that stayed merely good.
A quiet study of an eighty-year-old sushi master who has spent decades refining the same craft in a tiny restaurant with no room for casual walk-ins — a film about what a calling looks like when taken to its absolute…
New York is the pulse. Here I found myself and my music.
A practical guide by Intel's former CEO that treats managing people as an engineering discipline: how to measure a team's output, run meetings and one-on-ones, and why a manager's job is measured by leverage rather…
A love letter to cinema itself, told through the friendship of a boy and an old projectionist in a small Sicilian town — a film about how we're shaped not only by the people around us but by the place where we first…
All my life has been happiness because I did what I loved.
A memoir by Pixar's co-founder on how to build an organization where creative failure is neither hidden nor punished but treated as part of the road to good films, and why candor inside a team matters more than any…
A film documenting climber Alex Honnold's ropeless ascent of the three-thousand-foot face of El Capitan — one in which the camera crew fears for its subject's life as much as the audience does.
I'm a musician. I came from music. It's in my genes.
A manifesto arguing that sustained, undistracted concentration is becoming a rare and increasingly valuable skill in an economy of constant notifications — and that it, not multitasking, is what produces work that…
A near-plotless portrait of a lifelong bureaucrat who learns he is dying and discovers, almost too late, what it might mean to actually live.
I changed my name because the old me died. Dylan is who I really am.
A compact treatise arguing that executive effectiveness is not a gift or a matter of charisma but a learnable set of habits centered on how one handles time, contribution and the quality of decisions.
A week in the life of a talented but luckless folk musician — a film about talent that isn't enough when timing and circumstance work against you.
Rap is my language. But now I speak many languages through my instruments
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
No matter how hard life is, the show must go on. That's my motto.
The reward isn't money. It's that your music touches people's hearts.
Every album is an attempt to express something that cannot be said in words.
The piano is my means of expression, it is my voice
I always believed that music comes first. Without it, I'd be dead.
Your calling is what makes you feel alive
Composition requires craft, but genius is when the heart sings with the melody.
Believe in yourself and in your music. That's what matters for success.
I started writing music at 15 years old and my first album won five Grammy awards
Music is the universal language. It unites people regardless of origin.
Dreams come true if you believe in yourself and work hard for them.
Everyone can find their sound. It just requires listening to yourself
If you have a voice and a platform, you're obliged to use it for good. It's not a choice, it's a duty.
Spirituality is a search for home. It's searching for that place where you can finally be yourself.
The purpose of music is to transport the listener to a different realm of consciousness.
My aim is to bring hope to people through music.
Politics is personal. If you believe in justice, you're obliged to speak about it.
History is not over. We're still writing it. Each of us is an author of the future.
Every day I'm thankful for this gift of music, for the chance to play.
When you play music with love, the whole universe conspires to help you.
For me, life is the road. Each journey teaches me something new about myself and the world.