"There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare."

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Source : "PBS's Judy Woodruff, Jim Lehrer reflect on prior presidential races". thehill.com. September 8, 2008.

Jim Lehrer

#Technique Quotes #Answers Quotes #Matter Quotes

“God of peace, you are at the center of my life, a strong refuge of peace in the whirlwind of my pain. I look to you for strength and a constant assurance of hope.”
“If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?”
“I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.”
“I'm not a real blond Shocking.”
“I treasure a core value of humanity and that guides people why they act the way they do. I will use this to show other people how they can understand each otherâ€¦ as one, we can help society.”
“Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they can stand. They are afraid to find out how tough they are. Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich. Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her, she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.”

Source : 1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.
“Believe in the power of believing in yourself.”
“My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.”

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