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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.
I love writing essays and articles, so it's hard for me to resist taking assignments that inevitably pull me away from larger projects.
I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.
This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.
I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.