"G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don’t predict anything."

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Source : "In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2013.

Laszlo Bock

#Test Scores Quotes #Tests Quotes #Criteria Quotes

“Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.”
“Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.”
“...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.”
“I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.”

Source : Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.
“When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be. Shakespeare said the course of true love never did run smooth, and I had this sense that it had to be painful. It was such a revelation [...] to realize that it shouldn't be that way and that you get to choose who you love and who you decide to give your heart to.”
“My brother and I are best friends.”
“My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”
“Liza-don't let it make any difference. It won't, will it? With us, I mean." "Of course it won't," I told her. But I was wrong. Six months of not writing-that's a difference. And so I lied to Annie. On top of everything else, I lied to Annie, too.”

Source : Nancy Garden (2017). “Annie on My Mind”, p.111, Open Road Media

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