"Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data."

-- Marcus Buckingham

#Passion Quotes #Data Quotes #People Quotes

“I'm kind of a 'Fix-It Felix' video girl. I like the simpler, sweeter kind of games.”
“Fervor is a fire that makes things boil and grow hot, just as fire causes water to boil. It is, properly speaking, charity on fire, and that is what you should have because a Daughter without Charity is like a body without a soul.”
“I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.”
“Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent ...”

Source : Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”
“Whether it's one scene or 15 scenes in a film, whether it's the lead or a cameo part, if I don't find it interesting, I tend not to do it. You never really know what it is. It could be a one-scene part. I remember I read the one scene in Crash and was asked to do it. I was like, "Absolutely!" There's no formula for how something has to be. I always try to keep it that way.”
“At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.”

Source : William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.71, Delacorte Press
“The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method of mathematical reasoning. The former is just the collection of selected data; the latter enables one to infer results about experiments that have not been performed. There is no logical reason why the second method should be possible at all, but one has found in practice that it does work and meets with reasonable success.”
“Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer”

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