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What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment. -- Lois Lowry
Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.) -- John Baldessari
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. -- Baltasar Gracian
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion. -- Jessica Savitch
I had a clear vision: if I take up an assignment, I'll do full justice to it; otherwise I'll walk away. -- Kiran Bedi
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
Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control. -- Angela Braly
With each assignment, I weigh the looming possibility of being killed, and I chastise myself for allowing fear to hinder me. War photographers aren't supposed to get scared. -- Lynsey Addario
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security. -- Phyllis Schlafly
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
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
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
A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God. -- Max Lucado
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
The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start. -- Brian Skerry
I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn't an easy thing to do, especially when you're dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions... it's tough. -- Junior Seau
For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus. -- Max Lucado
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
I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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
Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine. -- Mike Wallace
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
I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple. -- Frank Quattrone
The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was. -- Kevin Mitnick
Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it's done. And by the time you get it in, it's done and you're sitting there reading it, and you realize the 12,000 things you didn't do. I mean, writing isn't fun. It's never been fun. -- Lewis Black
When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking. -- Ansel Elgort
When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty. -- Leslie Cockburn
Love is no assignment for cowards. -- Ovid
Education is a lifetime assignment & terminates when you do. -- Orrin Woodward
The simpler the assignment, the more difficult the solution. -- Wolfgang Weingart
I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment. -- Alain Resnais
Life is a gift... Life is a test... Life is temporary assignment.... -- Rick Warren
The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment. -- Myles Munroe
My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches. -- Jack Adams
Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked. -- Timothy Leary
We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description. -- Rachel Held Evans
Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment. -- Bill Dedman
Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men. -- Joseph Conrad
Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source. -- Bill Johnson
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life. -- John Lennon
My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time. -- Leslie Fiedler
If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it. -- Angus King
Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery. -- David Doubilet
I stay in my lane of assignment and do what I'm supposed to do in life. -- Paula White
Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you. -- Virginia C. Andrews
Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately. -- Chip Kidd
Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way. -- Elie Wiesel
When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment. -- Max Lucado
This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin'; We both on assignment to unearth the diamond. -- Mos Def
Our assignment comes with the alignment. Too many people look for the assignment without first finding their alignment. -- Jim Hodges
Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don't let fear intimidate you. -- Joel Osteen
Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence. -- Russell Stannard
No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility. -- Peter Drucker
Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him. -- Elizabeth George
Your assignment from God is not to change your spouse, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to them. -- Elizabeth George
Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us. -- Bill Johnson
When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners -- Jo Brand
The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it. -- Richard Dawkins
This is a very difficult assignment for the United States, to hang in there and help this young democracy survive. -- George W. Bush
If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow. -- Orson Scott Card
If we ask enough questions about a difficult assignment, we can get the teacher to make it easier and less demanding. -- Joseph Barrell
You are not saved for the sole purpose of going to heaven; you are saved to finish your assignment on earth -- Myles Munroe
i could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages -- Megan Boyle
I could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages. -- Megan Boyle
I have to make a dress out of recycled materials for my kid's preschool 'Project Runway'-like assignment. I'm currently fusing plastic bags. -- Busy Philipps
I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow. -- Paula Broadwell
Do not delegate an assignment and then attempt to manage it yourself - you will make an enemy of the overruled subordinate. -- Wess Roberts
When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures. -- Max Lucado
Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment. -- Price Pritchett
I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people. -- Donalyn Miller
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
Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist. -- David Mamet
I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own. -- Moran Atias
Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom? -- Cassandra Clare
I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it. -- Larry Page
He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person. -- David Baldacci
The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment. -- Rick Warren
I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally. -- Alan Menken
Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment." Work?" Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter. -- Scott Westerfeld
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
If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood. -- Socrates
It's so crucial to really get a good handle on what's getting in the way of the kid completing a homework assignment. It can be so many things. -- Ross W. Greene
My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work. -- Kenneth Joseph Arrow
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
This is the Church of Jesus Christ, and He leads it. No assignment in it need ever overwhelm you if you know that and listen for the Master's voice. -- Henry B. Eyring
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
Everyone should understand that getting good photos is paramount to everything. You have to do what it takes and often comfort and sleep are the first casualties of an assignment. -- Peter Menzel
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
My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life. -- John Lennon
As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it. -- Howard Thompson
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
The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams. -- Sark
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
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
Fulfilling your destiny is like going on an errand assignment. You must run it to make it meaningful. You don't become who you should become when you remain passionlessly without taking actions. -- Israelmore Ayivor
When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had. -- Jonathan Lethem
CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment. -- Bill Watterson
Let's say financially. Financially, I personally believe that you should have enough to do the assignment that you feel is part of your life. And whatever that is to do, you're going to need. -- Paula White
For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government. -- Harry S. Truman
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
The only God who can lead you out of trouble when you are pursuing your dreams is the one who gave you that assignment. Neglecting him from your plans is tantamount to commitment of suicide. -- Israelmore Ayivor
An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place. -- Johnnetta B. Cole
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
Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service. -- Harold E. Varmus

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