Richard Nelson Bolles Quotes
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.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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A friend of mine told me a bunch of stuff on Buddhism and about Avicii being the lowest level of Buddhist hell, and it just sort of got stuck in my head. Later on when I went to setup a MySpace, I tried a bunch of names and they were all taken so I just kind of ended up with Avicii and then I got really attached to it.
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I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.
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Style is primarily a matter of instinct.
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The West is not producing enough engineers.
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No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
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I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.
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I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.
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My hope is that we're going to end up with a far more tolerant society, where the erosion of privacy, to the extent it erodes, will be offset by increased tolerance.
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Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
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I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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I was starting all over. It's a tough road up here and last year, for whatever reason, I probably deserved it (the criticism).
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.
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The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.
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In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
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Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.
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There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.
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Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
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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.
