Top 33 Bolles Quotes
#2. Passion plus competency, not just competency alone, is key to securing employment.
Richard N. Bolles
#3. Job-hunting is, or should be, a full-time job. If your job-hunt isn't working, you must increase the amount of time you're devoting to your job-hunt.
Richard N. Bolles
#4. You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.
Richard Nelson Bolles
#5. No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.
Frank Bolles
#6. If someone out of work knows only three words about their impending job-hunt, I'm willing to bet those
three words will be: resumes/CV, interviews, and networking.
Richard N. Bolles
#7. Self-introspection is the way to improve any company, any marriage, any nation. And any job-hunt.
Richard N. Bolles
#8. Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.
Richard Nelson Bolles
#9. Unless you look dirty, wild, and disreputable, and smell really bad, if you know what your talent is, I guarantee some employer is looking for you
Richard N. Bolles
#10. The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were "realistic." They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and then gave them horses to ride.
Richard N. Bolles
#11. One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.
Richard Nelson Bolles
#12. The success of your job-hunt depends
on you - with a little help from your friends. You must be in charge of it. You must plan it. You must
direct it. You must know what works and what doesn't work. Your job-hunt is by its very nature a
"self-directed search.
Richard N. Bolles
#13. As most of us know, the proper attitude toward ourselves is called "good self-esteem." But self-esteem is
an art. An art of balance. A balance between thinking too little of ourselves, and thinking too much of
ourselves.
The name for thinking too much of ourselves is "egotism.
Richard N. Bolles
#14. Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.
Edmund Blair Bolles
#16. The object is to keep busy being something ... as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few.
Richard Nelson Bolles
#17. I do not know when it was, nor where it was, nor how young I may have been, but I can recall ... a sudden feeling of happiness at hearing the voice of the pines.
Frank Bolles
#18. It is a great victory if you learn how to survive in today's hard times; it's an even greater victory if you
help someone else survive and find meaningful work.
Richard N. Bolles
#19. What the meaning of this period of unemployment is, now.
One way to get at that definition is to ask ourselves, "What is this time for?
Richard N. Bolles
#20. I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
Richard Nelson Bolles
#21. The person who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.
Richard Nelson Bolles
#22. Just because you can't find them doesn't mean they don't exist. You've got to change the way you're
looking for them. Because there are always job vacancies out there.
Richard N. Bolles
#24. If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare, their occasional songs are precious to the ear.
Frank Bolles
#25. I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.
Richard Nelson Bolles
#26. So many times you will see people wringing their hands and saying 'I want to know what my mission in life is,' all the while they are cutting people off on the highway, refusing to give time to people, punishing their mate for having hurt their feelings or lying about what they did.
Richard N. Bolles
#27. Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
Richard Nelson Bolles
#28. Inventiveness depends upon two habits of mind, which we can adopt and develop: attention and
curiosity.
Attention means paying attention.....
Curiosity means just that. Endlessly curious. Endlessly asking questions. Endlessly wanting to know
how, and why?
Richard N. Bolles
#29. Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.
Richard Nelson Bolles
#30. Yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize and use reality in all its individuality and peculiarity.
Edmund Blair Bolles
#31. There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
Richard Nelson Bolles
#32. ..a disability is something within you. A prejudice is something within the
employer.
..don't look at yourself through their eyes. Look at yourself through your own eyes.
Richard N. Bolles
#33. Call it anything else if you will - fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating
- but "shyness" is the historic word for it.
Richard N. Bolles
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