#assignment

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

#assignments #classroom #college #comfortable #education

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#breaking-down-assignment #childhood #encouragement #homework #project

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

— Leslie Fiedler

#every #his #own #tell #time

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

#associate #because #big #days #exciting

When a man begins to do that which is assigned to him, it becomes as if he is more endowed and favoured than his fellows. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #talent #inspirational

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

#away #could #first #get #i