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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• 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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• 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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• Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. This is not what you expect to find on the resume of a supreme being. It's what you expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.

  George Carlin

  Attitude, War, Ice

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• ...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination, but also to counteract discrimination's lingering effects. Those effects, reflective of a system of racial caste [legal segregation and discrimination] only recently ended, are evident in our work places, markets, and neighborhoods. Job applicants with identical resumes, qualifications, and interview styles still experience different receptions, depending on their race.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Jobs, Persistence, Race

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• There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick.

  Annie Dillard

  Moving, Later In Life, Cells

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• I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.

  Eric Ries

  Simple, Names, Giving

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• Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.

  Bob Ney

  Sex, Children, Justice

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• I've never heard of William Craig. A debate with him might look good on his resume, but it wouldn't look good on mine!

  Richard Dawkins

  Looks, Might, Debate

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• I want to resume the life of a shy person.

  Garrison Keillor

  Shy, Want, Persons

  "A Prairie Home Companion", February 14, 1987.

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• Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

  Famke Janssen

  Names, Next, De Niro

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• Works for me. For the ones we love, today we’re allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that term loosely for all of us, have we an accord? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Order, Gentleman, Enemy

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.268, Macmillan

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• Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a sultry Texas night before a huge crowd, with everyone feeling perfectly safe, is exactly what terrorists hate. Which is why it is so important to resume such athletic rituals - which symbolize stability, confidence and order - as soon as is reasonably possible.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Hate

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• As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.

  Mitch Daniels

  Waiting, Tonight, Ladders

  "GOP blasts Obama for engaging in class warfare". www.cnn.com. January 25, 2012.

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• I get criticized for taking roles in films like Ghost Rider 2, but if you look at my résumé, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

  Idris Elba

  Roles, Looks, Ghost

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

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• As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.

  Jodie Foster

  Would Be, Alive, Boring

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• Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

  Pam Grier

  People, Gains, Film

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• If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.

  Sammy Hagar

  Careers, Solo, Vans

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• Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Years, Different

  "Zen and the art of protecting the planet" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Soul, Tasks, Actors

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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