#assign

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

#almost #assignment #book #doing #farmer

You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#families #get #partners #pick #seat

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

#assignment #assignments #freedom #fun #had

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#assign #comparison #cultural #dates #different

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

— Jessica Savitch

#car #covering #explosion #far #most

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

#assignment #attitude #biased #conflict #danger

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

#adverse conditions #assignment #athletes #being #chasing

Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear. ↗

— Robert Shea

#attend #busily #contribute #create #dear

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#assigned #best #concentrated #could #doing

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

#assignments #done #enter #head #out