Assignments Quotes

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

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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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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• 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

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• Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Giving, Inspire

  "Jim Gaffigan talks Domino's, Law & Order, and having the gall to accept serious acting roles". Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. January 28, 2010.

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• By referring to previous struggles and using them as reasons for not getting on with your life today, you're assigning responsibility to the past for why you can't be successful or happy in the present.

  Wayne Dyer

  Struggle, Responsibility, Successful

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 10, 2015

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• Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.

  Linda Tripp

  Respect, Deserving

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• What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

  Lois Lowry

  Preparation, Training, Important

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Clients

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• I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.

  Gordon Parks

  Photography, Years, Europe

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

  Lata Mangeshkar

  Interest, Decided

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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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• When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

  Philip Emeagwali

  College, Eight, Years

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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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• 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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• I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

  Neil Sheehan

  War, Vietnam, Literature

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• My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Telling The Truth

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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

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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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• 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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• 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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• I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

  Gordon Parks

  Writing, Years, Two

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