"PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job."

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Source : Interview with Peter Thiel, gist.github.com. 2012.

Max Levchin

#Jobs Quotes #Fun Quotes #Engineering Quotes

“It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.”
“That the different Christian confessions, aware of the need for a new evangelisation in this period of profound transformations, may be committed to announcing the Good News and moving towards the full unity of all Christians in order to offer a more credible testimony of the Gospel.”
“Even the young are killing each other.”
“I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away”
“You do not need intellectuality for deep faith. You do not need it for behaving humanely towards people whether fellow Muslims or non-Muslims. You do not need a concept, a theory, you do not need intellectual arguments for justifying a way of living that is already in place in order for it to proceed.”
“When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people.”

Source : Source: www.justjared.com
“You can always control the results. You can always control your attitude and effort every day.”
“Ive been blessed to have a long career.”

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