Resumes Quotes

• The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Beautiful, Spring, Soul

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.126

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• Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

  Richard Dawkins

  Spring, Curiosity, World

  Richard Dawkins (2000). “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Twitter post from Aug 28, 2013

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• But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.

  Delta Burke

  Hollywood, Checks

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• You are not your resume, you are your work.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Inspiring, Business

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• A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Christmas, Phones, Doubt

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.132, Verso

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• In other words, If you don't take action, you won't get any results You are not your resume, you are your work

  Seth Godin

  Mind Blowing, Action, Results

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• The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer. Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume!

  Bentley Little

  Jobs, Years, Two

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• A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.

  George Combe

  Sleep, Exercise, Night

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• It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

  Anna Quindlen

  Writing, Crafts, Spirit

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

  Honore de Balzac

  Ocean, Society, Levels

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• The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.

  Gertrude Stein

  Way

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• The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Lying, Reality, Justice

  "Anticipating the Incapacitated Justice". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2009.

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• The thing that drives me nuts is when I get stopped in a crowded place, and they look at me and say, 'Who are you?' I don't know if they're friends or fans, and I say, 'I'm Annabella Sciorra', and they say, 'What have you done?' So I start to give them my resume. It's so embarrassing.

  Annabella Sciorra

  Nuts, Giving, Looks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't even look at resumes anymore. I think they're misguided. I talk to them, ask them where they've been, "What's your favorite experience in a restaurant?" Where do they like to eat? Blah blah blah. All that stuff, but I can only really describe my journey with another person if I can connect with them and their passion. Otherwise, I don't care where they've worked. It doesn't matter to me. Really I have to feel it, and then I can teach them anything.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Passion, Journey, Thinking

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• You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary.  In all three cases it is better to show your humility by letting someone else lie for you.

  David Hayden

  Lying, Writing, Humility

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• Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Philosophy, Fall, Eye

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• Naked acrobatics are on my resume.

  Miles Teller

  Acrobatics, Naked

  "Zac Efron, co-stars talk 'naked acrobatics,' have 'awkward moment' on TODAY". Interview with Ree Hines, www.today.com. January 21, 2014.

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• My soul had found
  All happiness in its own cause or ground.
  Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot
  Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot
  Those amorous cries that out of quiet come
  And must the common round of day resume.

  William Butler Yeats

  Happiness, Sex, Soul

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.328, Hayes Barton Press

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• Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.

  Robert Musil

  Jobs, Reading, Writing

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• Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.

  Nancy Lublin

  Passion, Pads, Helping

  "Do College Admissions Officers Care About Community Service?" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, War, Airplane

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• The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in a less hierarchical world... Build your skills, not your resume. Evaluate what you can do, not the title they’re going to give you. Do real work. Take a sales quota, a line role, an ops job. Don’t plan too much, and don’t expect a direct climb. If I had mapped out my career when I was sitting where you are, I would have missed my career.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  Sheryl Sandberg's Speech on Harvard Business School Class Day in Cambridge, Massachusetts., www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2017.

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• In less than seven years the vestiges of the Gothic invasion were almost obliterated, and the city appeared to resume its former splendour and tranquillity. The venerable matron replaced her crown of laurel, which had been ruffled by the storms of war, and was still amused in the last moment of her decay with the prophecies of revenge, of victory, and of eternal dominion.

  Edward Gibbon

  Revenge, War, Years

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.338, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Ideas, Laughing, People

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