Assignments Quotes

• Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Military, Mean, Hands

  "Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Congresswoman-Elect, Applies For Daniel Inouye’s Senate Seat" by B.J. Reyes, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 25, 2012.

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• Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.

  Chip Kidd

  Long, Long Life, Life Is

  Chip Kidd (2008). “The Learners: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  "How Doing What You Love Serves Humanity" by Jason Mannino, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2009.

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• The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.

  Myles Munroe

  Successful, Life Is, Failure In Life

  Myles Munroe (2010). “Applying the Kingdom”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

  Lata Mangeshkar

  Interest, Decided

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• Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

  Jessica Savitch

  Attitude, Focus, Prejudice

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Film, Valuable

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• It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

  Charles Kuralt

  Fun, America, Years

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• The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

  Margaret Haddix

  Book, Stories, Noon

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• I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.

  Herb Ritts

  School, Light, Feelings

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• Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training.

  Fred F. Fielding

  Training, Bigs, Exciting

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• By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

  Jessica Savitch

  Car, Tanks, Covering

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Clients

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• What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

  William Albert Allard

  Photography, Spiritual, Culture

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• Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

  Roger Corman

  Giving, Directors, Film

  Roger Corman, J. Philip Di Franco, Karyn G. Browne (1979). “The Movie World of Roger Corman”, Chelsea House

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• It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

  Lindy Boggs

  Blessed, Privilege, Louisiana

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• I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.

  Tracy Kidder

  Book, Organization, Lap

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• Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

  Jessica Savitch

  Air, Quality, Literature

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.

  John Frankenheimer

  Needs, Way, Eclectic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

  Frank Rich

  Running, Play, Imagination

  "The Best Goebbels Of All?". www.nytimes.com. June 27, 2004.

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• Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, United States

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• All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done.

  Martin Short

  Writing, Done, Want

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• The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Military, Air, Order

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