Rohit Shetty

I don't go for holidays or celebrate my success because I know nothing is permanent. I don't let it get to me - like I am India's top director with too many hits. If that happens, I might lose the connect with my audience. The day I go wrong, they will run away from me. I want to be like an assistant director all my life.

Indian Director

Mike Wallace

I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.

American Journalist

Tom Perez

It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil Rights Act and help make its promise a reality.

American Politician

Marco van Basten

When I became the assistant, I was intelligent and helpful. I had patience. As the head coach I was completely the opposite. I made a good decision to get out.

Dutch Manager

Tite Kubo

I have three assistants, but there isn't a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

Japanese Artist

Madonna Ciccone

I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.

American Musician

Anne Robinson

I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!

British Celebrity

Brad Goreski

It's very rare that I get really upset about something my assistants have done.

American Designer

John Frankenheimer

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

American Director

Megan Gallagher

I have an assistant in Vancouver to help me with my life.

American Actress

An assistant often works directly with another person, providing support in various tasks.

Workplace Helper

Assistants can have specialized roles depending on the workplace, such as medical or executive.

Sector-Specific Roles

In computing, an assistant refers to a program that performs specific tasks for the user.

Software Helper

Some virtual assistants respond to voice commands, making tasks hands-free.

Voice-Activated

An assistant role is sometimes temporary, filling in for someone else.

Temporary Role

Becoming an assistant can be a career step towards a more permanent or higher position.

Stepping Stone

 everything's fine in in our church in the lds church she was ordained to the priesthood and was the first assistant to the bishop and so she was you know very involved and so i came home one day because she hadn't shown up at church and she was still in bed and i came in and i said hey what's the deal

Growing Up Transgender...

 I said, "Yes, sir. I did." And we started arguing. And people started coming in, just outraged I'd written these crazy things. And police officers were coming in and assistant prosecutors and clerk workers. Before I knew it, the courtroom was filled with people angry that we were talking about race,

Bryan Stevenson: We need...

 But skipping classes to spend more time in the lab and neglecting to show proper deference to his professors had derailed his intended career path. Passed over even for a lab assistant position, he had to settle for a job at the Swiss patent office, obtained with the help of a friend's father.

Einstein's miracle year...

 for a series it did on women around the world, but one of the reporters told me she's convinced it never would have happened if they had not had a female assistant foreign editor, and they would not have gotten some of those stories without female reporters and editors on the ground,

Megan Kamerick: Women...

 seal bone and it's really fairly unpleasant the first time we did it my knee blistered and skinned and was just really very painful our delightful camera assistant rowan fashioned me some very good knee pads which have been a godsend

Filming A Battle Of Life...

 director assistant producer for seven worlds one planet predominantly doing the antarctica program this was the chinstrap penguin shoot we went to an island called deception which is this active volcano it's actually a sunken

The Dirty Side Of...

 The key is to maximize the support each assistant provides, not wasting a single kiloliter of fuel. It also helps us to think symmetrically so they can make shorter trips in either direction

Can you solve the...

 my name is charlotte i was the assistant producer on the europe show of seven worlds one planet and for the lynx shoot i was the field director for the europe program i think the key

The Elusive Iberian Lynx...

 the digital assistant on Apple's iPhone, will be more like a best friend, someone who will listen when others won't. I believe this wish reflects a painful truth

Connected, but alone? PIPE...

 but we're not done could my trusty assistant come onstage