Resume Quotes

#1. I think diversity is very key to anybody's resume, and also for your mental well-being.

Lucy Liu

#2. Peace be with you," I said, and as I turned to resume my journey with Coyote, I added under my breath, "and asskicking be with me.

Kevin Hearne

#3. My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.

Chris Pine

#4. The light shone down on his plump face, reflected from his rimless glasses, bathed the pinkness of his scalp beneath the thinning sandy hair as he bent his head to resume reading.

Robert Bloch

#5. 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

#6. These are the bozos. They are graspers and self-promoters, shameless resume padders, people who describe themselves as "product marketing professionals," "growth hackers," "creative rockstar interns," and "public speakers.

Dan Lyons

#7. The smartest people can write the worst emails and those of less intellect can write the best.

Paul Babicki

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. And as the wary dogs skirt past, we nod, grimace, and resume our paths to separate destinies and graves.

Peter Matthiessen

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Looking backwards, I look at my resume and I look at the things I've accomplished, but quite honestly there's just that word, 'Mother', I just saw it on the paper, and I that's the one that means the most to me.

Michele Bachmann

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Was there ever any doubt?
And as the spotlights fade away,
And you're escorted through the foyer,
You will resume your callow ways,
But I was meant for the stage.

Colin Meloy

#22. Your LinkedIn profile must include keywords for specific skills that match your desired job.

Melanie Pinola

#23. 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

#24. Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies,
Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies:
The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays,
On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays;
Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume,
Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume.

Phillis Wheatley

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

Trey Gowdy

#26. Life is the only game which has no pause, no resume and no restart. You have to be careful enough to never fail.

M.F. Moonzajer

#27. When I do an action thing, it speaks louder than the things that I've done that are dramatic and comedy. Actually, if you look at my resume, I have just as much comedic things as dramas, and I have far less action things than all of the other things, but I'm kind of defined as an action person.

Michael Jai White

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. The way to resumption is to resume.

Salmon Portland Chase

#31. Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

Henri Bergson

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. He looked at the menu dreamily. 'God, it's good to be eating in France again.'

'It's good to be eating again,' said Brenda.

'But it's nice to resume the habit in France.'

'That's true of so many habits.

Jack Iams

#35. 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

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

Mason Cooley

#37. 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

#38. The way to resume is to resume.
If we knew everything ahead of time, all would be dictation not creation.

Gertrude Stein

#39. Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off ... p 207

Oscar Wilde

#40. Works for me. For the ones we love, today we're allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that term loosely for all of us, have we an accord? (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#41. I followed whatever train I wanted. I wrote without writing - of genies and hustlers and mythic travelers, my vagabondia. Then I would walk back home, happily satisfied, and resume my daily tasks.

Patti Smith

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. different genres. To go with her fiction, she also writes nonfiction in many different fields with books available on resume writing, companion gardening

Dale Mayer

#46. When life gets you down, remember God's RESUME in your life" - Evangelist Naomi Antwi

Naomi Mensah Antwi

#47. 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

#48. 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

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

Walter Martin

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

Robert Breault

#51. Stop fussing over me, woman. I will be whole again shortly, and then you can resume ogling me and desiring my body.

Katie MacAlister

#52. Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

George Steiner

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#56. 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

#57. Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.

Euell Gibbons

#58. Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States.

Rudy Giuliani

#59. My soul had found
All happiness in its own cause or ground.
Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot
Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot
Those amorous cries that out of quiet come
And must the common round of day resume.

William Butler Yeats

#60. As soon as she set foot outside, she could hear the empty conversation and laughter resume. Like sounding brass and tinkling cymbals.

Laura Frantz

#61. I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

Mary Decker

#62. Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.

Giacomo Casanova

#63. Do it because it's right, not because it's right for your resume.

Howard Behar

#64. 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

#65. We should resume our language to science
and leave the rest to silence

Natasha Tsakos

#66. When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there with her, sensing the cold grit under her instep. The details are what matter - they are the experience.

Michael Cadnum

#67. I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#68. Yeah, I think on my resume it still says that - that I can juggle.

Luke Kirby

#69. 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

#70. Earth is about to set. Resume 08:00 my time tomorrow morning. Tell family I'm fine. Give crew my best. Tell Commander Lewis disco sucks.

Andy Weir

#71. 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

#72. I have never left you. And I never told you you couldn't go outside. Take your children and go outside and play and shop. Resume your life. What are you afraid of?

Kim De Blecourt

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

Famke Janssen

#74. 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

#75. I hand him the single greatest work of fiction known to man: my resume.

Tyler Knight

#76. I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

Idris Elba

#77. If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.

Sammy Hagar

#78. You must do the thinking for the reader of your resume.

Jay Conrad Levinson

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

Jay Samit

#80. 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

#81. You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

Robert Breault

#82. 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

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

Francesca Zappia

#84. 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

#85. The ultimate quality of your life is not in your resume, but in the minds and hearts of those you mean something to because you gave yourself to them.

Laura Schlessinger

#86. The resume focuses on you and the past. The cover letter focuses on the employer and the future. Tell the hiring professional what you can do to benefit the organization in the future. (12)

Joyce Lain Kennedy

#87. Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.

Nina Easton

#88. 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

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

Alex Berenson

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad because that means they aren't entitled.

Millard Drexler

#93. If the nuclear dossier is referred to the U. N. Security Council, Iran will have to resume uranium enrichment.

Ali Larijani

#94. 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

#95. Your LinkedIn profile should leave no room for doubt about the kind of job you're looking for and why you're the best person for that position.

Melanie Pinola

#96. 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

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

Tom Brokaw

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

Fennel Hudson

#99. You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary. In all three cases it is better to show your humility by letting someone else lie for you.

David Hayden

#100. Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.

Neil Gaiman