Interview Answers Quotes

#1. Not everyone can be relaxed or comfortable enough to seriously listen to the (debate or interview) answers.

Jim Lehrer

#2. The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

George Santayana

#3. When you receive the answers of your interview with yourself~ you become an extremely dangerous person.

Nina Montgomery

#4. Conversation of the Day -
He: How do you describe yourself in two words?
Me: You don't.

Sanhita Baruah

#5. Nothing tends to materialise man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labour.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#6. I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

Harry S. Truman

#7. There's only one interview technique that matters ... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.

Jim Lehrer

#8. We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#9. He's part of the product and will make no bones about creating that image to bring the value up in his product, bring the value up in everything he touches.

Marla Maples

#10. In life, we tend to get what we expect. Start expecting the best. Since life is a do-it-to-yourself project, why not believe in miracles? You have the freedom of choice. Why not expect miracles to happen in your life? Make plans, work hard and expect miracles. Why? Because you can.

Mark LaMoure

#11. I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

Chris O'Donnell

#12. Few pay attention to the histories and the root pictures words can release. These neglected qualities are there, however, and the poets have always found them a self-delighting source of excitement.

John Ciardi

#13. Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don't think we live philosophy anymore. It's done.

Agnes Denes

#14. Passion is a sickness. It confounds and makes you do things just to please the other person. Quite different from love. In love you find delight despite the person's flaws.

Cristiane Serruya

#15. An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty brain, shedding bits of color, a sentence or a fragrance, something that changes and then disappears. It drops like a stone to the bottom of the cave.

Barbara Kingsolver

#16. I did a radio interview for a station in Connecticut or something, and it was the worst interview ever. It was all yes and no answers.

Macaulay Culkin

#17. You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.

Austin Kleon

#18. I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.

Maximilian Schell

#19. You don't usually have to wait a month for a new episode of a TV show. We ask comic readers to wait a month for a new issue, and honestly, given the time that it takes to put them together, a month is really too fast.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#20. When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.

Dave Grohl

#21. Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility.

Stewart Brand

#22. I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Anne Sullivan