Applicant Quotes

#1. Can't we do better with Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software?

Miles Anthony Smith

#2. As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, ' ... requires seven to ten years, and costs each applicant an average of $70 million.'

Orrin Hatch

#3. Algorithms are simplifications; they can't and don't take everything into account (like a billionaire uncle who has included the applicant in his will and likes to rock-climb without ropes).

Andrew McAfee

#4. The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.

Ronald Reagan

#5. Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia, and, still worse, to any applicant from Arkansas.

H.L. Mencken

#6. As the applicant pool grows, the exact place to draw the line between looking and leaping settles to 37% of the pool, yielding the 37% Rule: look at the first 37% of the applicants,* choosing none, then be ready to leap for anyone better than all those you've seen so far.

Brian Christian

#7. I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain only after five years residence in this country. And I shall yield to no one of my future countrymen in patriotism. I consider America now my real home.

Wilhelm Steinitz

#8. Today an applicant who couldn't pass the typing test blamed it on me for giving her a trick keyboard because the keys weren't in alphabetical order.

Jenny Lawson

#9. of the large numbers of people who applied for jobs, and she wondered how employers managed to select from such a wide field. Was everyone interviewed? And even if that happened, how did one distinguish one applicant from another when they all probably had roughly the same qualifications?

Alexander McCall Smith

#10. A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them what they do for fun, what they're reading, try and find out if they have a life outside of work.

Nolan Bushnell

#11. I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.

Thomas G. Stemberg

#12. Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#13. It provides a convenient excuse for arbitrary decisions: asked why it rejected a student, a college can say that he or she looked wonderful on paper but didn't fit into the mix. The image of a fair but fickle process also pumps up the applicant pool:

Daniel Golden

#14. The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

Bob Goodlatte

#15. America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.

Robert Pozen

#16. Applicant are just as important as race in determining college admissions ...

Auren Hoffman

#17. On his next job application there was going to be the question "What did your father do for a living?" and if an applicant filled in "Marine," "Police Officer" or "Commando," he was shredding it.

Kristen Ashley

#18. Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.

J. C. Watts

#19. I don't really get nervous.

Shamir

#20. All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Jesus Christ

#21. You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.

Cameron Monaghan

#22. I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

Todd Barry

#23. The little mutton-chopped man interrupted them to point out that in his opinion good was not the avoidance of evil, but something more positive than that: it was making the world a better place.

Neil Gaiman

#24. There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

Gore Vidal

#25. I didn't write 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I'm not even sure who they all are. I can't wait to see the movie.

Stan Lee

#26. Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Eric Hoffer

#27. I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.

Patty Griffin