Assignments Quotes - Page 4

• I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.

  Paula Broadwell

  Academic, Lost, Harvard

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• America is a country in which 75 percent of the people believe there's widespread corruption. We have got to go back to re-establishing a sense of trust. That has to be an assignment Trump takes personally. And that has to be more than trust me because trust me never works in the long run as a model. It's just - it's not possible.

  Newt Gingrich

  Running, Country, Believe

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, Stars, Kids

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex assignment are not mutilated. Second, it once again sets up the feminist as the prosecutor of trans people. If there is any mutilation going on in this scene, it is being done by the feminist police force who rejects the lived embodiment of transwomen. That very accusation is a form of "mutilation" as is all transphobic discourse such as these.

  Judith Butler

  Sex, Men, People

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score.... [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'

  Gordon Allport

  Thinking, Comforting, Intellectual

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• Nothing is more pathetic than having a small character in a big assignment. Many of us don't want to give attention to our character, we just want the big assignment from God.

  Henry Blackaby

  Character, Giving, Attention

  Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby, Claude V. King (2008). “Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God”, p.146, B&H Publishing Group

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• Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Fatherhood, Eternity, Easy

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• One might almost say, to adapt von Clausewitz, that modern warfare is PR by other means. And war-winning strategies mean that modern armies most stop treating their communications operations as secondary assignments or (as still too often happens) dumping grounds for officers who have failed at everything else - but as missions absolutely essential to success.

  David Frum

  Peace, War, Communication

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• A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.

  Marianne Williamson

  Choices, Lessons, Way

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• A lot of (Kyle's) stories when he was back home in Texas, a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in Iraq, how he viewed Iraqis. Some of what people have described as his racist tendencies towards Iraqis and Muslims when he was going on some of these, you know, killing sprees in Iraq on assignment. So I think there are issues... When he was involved in his - on assignments in terms of what he was doing. A lot of the description that has come out from his book and some of the terminology that he has used, people have described as racist.

  Ayman Mohyeldin

  Hate, Book, Home

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• I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.

  Paula Fox

  Writing, Years, Class

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• Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.

  Meg Cabot

  Cracks, Arguing, Argument

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Mean Spirits”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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• Back when I was on my first assignment as a seeker, I was way out in Arizona. Brought in this kid named Clarisse.” “Clarisse?” “Sibling of yours,” Hedge said. “Ares kid. Violent. Rude. Lots of potential.

  Rick Riordan

  Sibling, Kids, Rude

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• The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do this, so you will have to be vigilant. When evaluators give you an assessment, they are just guessing at who you are; they certainly are not the ones who know your potential. They can rate you and influence you, but they don't get to define you. That's your most honorable assignment: to define, every day through the way you deliver your work, the scope and nature of your inherent abilities.

  Charlotte Beers

  Mistake, Assessment, Giving

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• My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

  Marvin Sapp

  Loss, Helping Others, Use

  "Marvin Sapp: Surviving Loss, 'Keeping It Moving'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 29, 2012.

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• I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.

  Alain Resnais

  Film, Driven, Made

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• Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do not know, but if we fail in our assignment it is pretty certain that a part of the job will be left undone.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Jobs, Philosophy, Responsibility

  "The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan".

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• My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour and space are at the whim of reality, their discovery and organization is the assignment of the realist painter.

  Ralph Goings

  Reality, Light, Discovery

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• I could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages.

  Megan Boyle

  Sports, Writing, Three

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• The whole thrust in my life right now is spinning my assignments around and making them work in a more personal way (...) I wanted to go back and do the original thing: one camera, one lens, one film. You really have to put yourself in a position of danger to be creative.

  David Alan Harvey

  Creative, Way, Spinning

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• Jesus commissioned his church to make disciples of all nations. In this carefully researched work, Thomas Hudgins fleshes out the methods and goals to achieve this divinely ordained assignment. I am thankful for the heart and passion of Thomas. You will find them emerging from the pages of this work.

  Daniel L. Akin

  Jesus, Passion, Heart

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• Our real calling to be a compassionate Christian came when we stepped out of the waters of baptism… We don’t need a bishop’s assignment to be kind. We don’t need to sign up to be thoughtful. We don’t need to be sustained by our wards to be sensitive.

  Chieko N. Okazaki

  Christian, Real, Thoughtful

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• Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna figure out that Superman is Clark Kent?' - it's really hard to get involved in that on anything other than a craft level. And I'm not gonna put down craftsmanship; it is a noble enough thing to have made a table that you can pound on and it doesn't fall down. But occasionally, we might have an assignment that engages some other parts of ourselves, and those tend to be the good stories.

  Dennis O'Neil

  Real, Fall, Writing

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• Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.

  Marion G. Romney

  Morning, Creative, Serious

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• Most of the photographs I make are personal pictures and never end up in print. Even the magazines I shoot for on assignment publish very few of the actual selects. Sometimes these personal pictures will end up in a book of my work. Oftentimes, however, they are simply photographs which I hope resonate, yet rarely find a publication home. I do a lot of personal work in Rio de Janeiro, and this of a parkour artist making a jump on Ipanema Beach is such a moment.

  David Alan Harvey

  Beach, Book, Home

  "The Most Extraordinary Photos You've Never Seen" by Elizabeth Griffin, www.esquire.com. November 13, 2014.

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