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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• Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion. American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned with their German counterparts before the war, and are even now preparing to resume where they left off, after "the present unpleasantness" ceases.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Law, Giving

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• I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.

  Gregoire Akcelrod

  Reality, Three, France

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• The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.

  Dale Dauten

  Opportunity, Names, Insightful

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• Often, during combat, the warrior of light receives blows that he was not expecting. And he realizes that, during a war, his enemy is bound to win some of the battles. When this happens, the warrior of light weeps bitter tears and rests in order to recover his energies a little. But he immediately resumes the battle for his dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, War

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• In the short term, it would not have made it possible to resume relations, because in the Chinese mind, the humiliation of China started with the annexation of Taiwan by Japan. If the United States had suddenly declared Taiwan as a separate state - for which we would have had no support among other nations - the consequences would have been giving up our relationship with China and committing ourselves to a long-term conflict with China.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Giving Up, Japan, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions;
  if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.

  Arnold Bennett

  Giving Up, Lying, Effort

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta.

  Stephen Harper

  Responsibility, Fighting, Pension Plans

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• I am all about breaking barriers and challenging myself, that is why everything I have done on my resume is different. I have never played a cop again, and I have never played a boxer again since I played Muhammad Ali. That was a challenge, being darker than him, and the film won Best Television Movie and I was a part of that. I was in Mississippi Burning, which won an Oscar.

  Darius McCrary

  Challenges, Different, Burning

  Source: michaelfairmansoaps.com

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• When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.

  Charles William Eliot

  Work, Heart, Progress

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• Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume talks, but, they cancelled it. They had thought that Iran would no longer resume talks with them.

  Ali Larijani

  Iran, Three, Letters

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• When your woman gives you the silent treatment, say you're sorry, or you'll find out how truly sorry you are when her monologue resumes.

  Wes Fesler

  Sorry, Apology, Giving

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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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• 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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• ...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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• 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 think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.

  Don Cheadle

  Thinking, Looks, Maps

  The Tavis Smiley show, www.pbs.org. February 21, 2012.

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• When I interview somebody, I look at their resume to see what they've done, who they've worked with, and how many times. If they've gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to hire.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Looks, Actors, Done

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