A Resume Quotes

#1. If someone does offer you a job, say 'yes.' You can always quit later. Then at least you'll be one of the unemployed as opposed to one of the never-employed. Nothing looks worse on a resume than nothing.

Stephen Colbert

#2. I felt a taste of that other kind of contentment that doesn't come from acquiring information or getting praise or building a resume, the kind that is just there, like a hidden pearl.

Jaimal Yogis

#3. So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#4. For every "Drive Safely" sign, shouldn't there be a "Resume Normal Driving" sign?

Robert Breault

#5. No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.

Jay Baruchel

#6. The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Jay Samit

#7. I'm never going to live this down. I will forever be known as the pastor's kid who got arrested, made friends in jail, and threw up on the singles camping trip. That will look great on a resume.

A.C. Williams

#8. In the newspaper business, I was in the last generation before the arrival of the personnel manager. You were hired by editors - and editors who would take a chance on what they perceived to be talent and not hire a resume.

Pete Hamill

#9. Beware of relying solely on a resume to hire; skills can be taught. What cannot be taught is a great "can do" attitude.

Beth Ramsay

#10. Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.

Mark Cuban

#11. It's important to be qualified, but if election 2016 is a resume competition, then Hillary Clinton's gonna be the next president, because she's been in office and in government longer than anybody else.

Marco Rubio

#12. 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

#13. There is more to life than a job. I didn't ever want to look back and point to a bookshelf of videotapes and say, 'That's been my life.' It's so much easier to write a resume than it is to craft a spirit.

Jane Clayson

#14. Resume? I wish I had a resume. And if I did, I wouldn't scrub anything from it. Who cares?

Anders Holm

#15. Your personal brand isn't a couple of adjectives, and it shouldn't be a resume either. It should demonstrate your authentic talents and strengths.

Sean Pisini

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

Anna Quindlen

#17. The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.

Oprah Winfrey

#18. I think if you're remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn't have a resume at all.

Seth Godin

#19. Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

Sean Young

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

Nancy Lublin

#21. If you think you're a really good programmer ... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming ... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

Bill Gates

#22. A focused resume is a powerful resume. A resume that tries to be all things to all people ends up being nothing at all.

Jay Conrad Levinson

#23. Growing up in Seattle, I had the opportunity to take classes since I was 7 years old. I did theatre. I auditioned for film, television, commercials, and built up not just a resume but also some confidence. I learned how to master my craft before arriving in Los Angeles.

Zoe McLellan

#24. The person is a resume, not what's on a piece of paper. Whoever gives advice about resumes in college should be dismissed. Titles don't matter. GPAs don't matter, nor does what school you go to.

Mickey Drexler

#25. It turns out that if you're a 24-year-old whose only line on their resume says CEO, you are totally unemployable.

Sam Yagan

#26. Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.

Eckhart Tolle

#27. Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere.

James Wolcott

#28. When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.

Ken Jeong

#29. When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.

Dana Brunetti

#30. 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

#31. Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity - all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates.

Lauren Conrad

#32. 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

#33. Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.

Bo Bennett

#34. 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

#35. By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse resume to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready--for nothing in particular.

Peter Thiel

#36. Being the first Olympic medallist of my country means that I have some obligations and it was a very tough job for me to resume a proper training schedule due to the (new) status I have in my country.

Benjamin Boukpeti

#37. I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter's resume - to actually go to jail protecting a source.

Trey Gowdy

#38. I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular field, but thought he should work for McKinsey for a few years first to add to his resume. To me that's like saving sex for your old age. It makes no sense.

Warren Buffett

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. When you're at the beginning of your career, there are a lot of, "I don't care about this," jobs that you take because it's about building your resume and building connections. There are so many factors that don't have anything to do with choosing for the material.

Billy Porter

#42. My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

Mason Cooley

#43. You know, it looks like I have a varied resume or a varied career, that I've made interesting choices, when the truth of the matter is, in a way I've just kind of piece-mealed a career together, you know?

Adam Scott

#44. As a visual person, I love a creative resume. Putting in a little effort on the design side will show that you care about making things look good.

Sophia Amoruso

#45. I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: 'Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.' I want to thank Harvard for this honor. I'll be changing my job next year and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume!

Bill Gates

#46. Make sure your LinkedIn profile has a targeted headline. Not only should the headline clearly state your career focus, it's also the most important place to add a keyword or two, because this influences how you appear in search results

Melanie Pinola

#47. 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

#48. Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else.

Walter Martin

#49. Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.

Andre Leon Talley

#50. When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy.

Eric Ries

#51. The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would demand the death of the fish. They would need to see it dead before they could feel secure enough to resume their normal lives.

Peter Benchley

#52. It's nice that established and emerging stars agree to appear in ambitious low-budget films. Such pro-bono work gives the movie a higher profile and the actors a potentially more distinguished resume.

Richard Corliss

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

Famke Janssen

#54. 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

#55. One day, I looked up and saw I had an extensive resume and saw how I did that and did not realize it because you are constantly working and trying to build a body of work.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

#56. My first-ever friend was a hallucination: a sparkling entry on my new resume as a crazy person.

Francesca Zappia

#57. After five minutes, or ten, or fifteen - it doesn't matter - open your eyes and resume your day. For a moment or two things might seem more alive.

Mark Epstein

#58. A huge number of jobs that are filled are never advertised to the public, or if they are, they're filled by people who have a connection to the employer.

Melanie Pinola

#59. As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume.

Alex Berenson

#60. But the human character, however it may be exalted or depressed by a temporary enthusiasm, will return by degrees to its proper and natural level, and will resume those passions that seem the most adapted to its present condition.

Edward Gibbon

#61. The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to save the world and simultaneously make you money (and create mindshare) for your company. Social innovation makes magic happen.

Richie Norton

#62. One of the great things about LinkedIn is it isn't the same kind of networking that happens at conventions, where you're wearing a name tag, trying to meet strangers, and awkwardly attempting to make small talk. LinkedIn is networking without the pressure.

Melanie Pinola

#63. Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment.

Tom Brokaw

#64. Like a snake on a rock, I have shed my skin and grown another. I feel reborn and ready to resume activities.

Fennel Hudson

#65. I got into Goldman really by acquisition because I had gone - I grew up in east New York in the Linden Projects - I did go to fancy schools, but my resume wasn't up to a Wall Street set of resumes. I went to college. I went to law school and practiced for a while.

Lloyd Blankfein

#66. The one surefire way to get me not to hire you is to send me your resume, especially if you've already got a good job. I won't be interested, because in a couple years, you'll be doing the same thing to me that you're doing to your current boss: looking for a better deal.

Bo Schembechler

#67. I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.

Billy Bob Thornton

#68. After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#69. I used to write on my resume that I was shorter than I was because I thought it would inhibit my roles, and as soon as I embraced that I am a tall female, I started getting really fantastic roles and really didn't even worry about wearing heels.

Heather Doerksen

#70. Okay. Let's see..." She considered her past, and then smiled wryly and shook her head. "Well, I was a perfume maker, Amaone, concubine, a duchess, a pirate, a madam, and then a hunter."

Harper's eyebrows had slid up his forehead as she rattled of her resume.

Lynsay Sands

#71. Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.

Hedi Slimane

#72. What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.

Saint John Chrysostom

#73. In stories about life after death, the soul often floats above the good-bye moment, hovering over police cars at highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to hospital-room ceilings. These are people who receive a second chance, who somehow, for some reason, resume their place in the world.

Mitch Albom

#74. 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

#75. Why is it the only joy you show these days is in battle? Why do you hunger for it so? Does it makes you forget? Does it ease your pain?"
Nortah tugged his horse's reins and resume the walk to the stables. "It eases nothing. But it does make me forget, for a while at least.

Anthony Ryan

#76. To make a simple change of a typeface can instantly transform text which had the appearance and tone of a joyous announcement to suddenly convey that of a somber tragedy.

Paul Babicki

#77. I want to resume the life of a shy person.

Garrison Keillor

#78. I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.

Albert Rosenfeld

#79. But why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience?

Thomas A Kempis

#80. 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

#81. A word of advice: your interview is about you. It's not about the school you went to, what you majored in, what your GPA was, or who your parents happen to be or know. Most of that stuff is right on your resume, and it might even have gotten you into the room, but it won't get you much farther.

Ivanka Trump

#82. The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more 'rested' when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.

Clive Thompson

#83. What would Ren do in Oregon? Would he get a job? What would he put on his resume? High Protector and former Prince of India?

Colleen Houck

#84. It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it.

Jason Marsden

#85. The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.

Jenny Shipley

#86. When it comes to getting a job or client, congruent value is aligning the employer's need with your value add.

Richie Norton

#87. 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

#88. No one creates a perfect resume on their first try.

Matthew T. Cross

#89. We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#90. If this acting thing doesn't work, I'd just put in my resume. I'm a really huge basketball fan ... I'll talk all sorts of trash.

Genesis Rodriguez

#91. And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.

Lawrence Hargrave

#92. Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

Madeleine Albright

#93. I'm pretty hard on myself. Every now and again I'll go on my IMDB or update my resume and I'm like, "man, I've done a lot of work."

Taryn Manning

#94. I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance, and since '96, that guy has been producing at least one hit every summer and every winter. That's a pretty good resume.

John Cena

#95. It's amazing how many people think a conversation is little more than reading their resume aloud.

Marshall Thornton

#96. The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.

Garrison Keillor

#97. Jerry thought about what a letter of recommendation from a council of wizards would look like in his resume file.
"Totally secret," he said firmly.

Rick Cook

#98. The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

Larry Wall

#99. She felt like a hospital patient who longs for her kindly visitor to leave so she can resume being ill.

Ian McEwan

#100. Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Victor Hugo