Assignments Quotes - Page 5

• My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Country, Desire, Done

  Nnamdi Azikiwe's remarks on Nigerian Independence (October 1, 1960), as quoted in "Between then and now" by Olatunji Ololade at "The Nation Online", March 10, 2009.

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• There is also the very real possibility that, in the justice of God, one of the reasons He uses the weak and the foolish of the world is so that no argument could be made later that certain people were advantaged in some unfair way by that which was unearned-either in the premortal life or here. Hence it seems prudent for us to realize that just because one is set apart or ordained to a certain calling or assignment he or she must not expect to be set apart from the stresses of life. There appear to be no immunities.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Stress, Justice Of God

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• This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin';
  We both on assignment to unearth the diamond.

  Mos Def

  Rap, Hip Hop, Different

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• I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Teacher, School, Writing

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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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• 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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• 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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• I served 40 years in government, and I'm not looking forward to a position or an assignment. Of course, I have always said if a president asks you to do something, you have to consider it. But I am in no way interested in returning to government. But I, of course, would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me.

  Colin Powell

  Government, Years, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Each day, I read the New York Times before leaving for the theater. And I have this standing assignment: connect the world of Anthem to the late breaking events of the day.

  Jeff Britting

  New York, Leaving, Events

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.

  Beck

  Song, Giving, Cartoon

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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