Interview Answers Quotes & Sayings

America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark returned home angry and ashamed at their defeat and rebuilt all-volunteer, professional armed forces from the ground up. — Michael Ignatieff

Well that was a waste of time. Not to mention gas money and new pantyhose. This sucks, pardon my French. She'd been certain - one hundred percent sure - that she was acing the interview for the private school librarian job. She didn't stumble over any answers. The woman conducting the interview was relaxed and — Marie Martine

One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his every word. And inspired by her eagerness to learn more about her God whom she loved so dearly, he said to the people: It is better to be this unlearned woman, loving God with all her heart, than the most learned theologian lacking love. — Thomas Aquinas

When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons. — Dave Grohl

I did a radio interview for a station in Connecticut or something, and it was the worst interview ever. It was all yes and no answers. — Macaulay Culkin

She was sleeping on the bed like a novel that is yet to be read and he sat on the floor, reading her, moving his fingers through her hair and staring at her face like she was magic that none ever understood. — Akshay Vasu

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs. — Douglas Feith

Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund. — Victoria Magazine

Not everyone can be relaxed or comfortable enough to seriously listen to the (debate or interview) answers. — Jim Lehrer

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming. — Eddie Van Halen

I never thought we'd get this far. I guess what drives us is the fact that we weren't satisfied with the answers that we've been given since birth. It's not just black and white, like they'd have us believe. There's always a gray area. We're going to be the ones to dance all in that gray area." - Chad Miller, Greenville Herald Banner Interview — C. Derick Miller

My silence was reward for you saying something intelligent. I'm a firm believer in positive reinforcement. — Sam Argent

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. — Oswald Chambers

I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers. — Maximilian Schell

When you receive the answers of your interview with yourself~ you become an extremely dangerous person. — Nina Montgomery

Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful? — Patricia Reilly Giff

Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility. — Stewart Brand

Curiosity and listening [are the principles to an excellent interview]. I never go into an interview with a dedicated list of questions in which I will not deviate. You must be curious about the subject and listen to his answer and ask the next question off that rather than the next question on your list. — Michael Kay

Conversation of the Day -
He: How do you describe yourself in two words?
Me: You don't. — Sanhita Baruah

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,
one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly. — Edwin Percy Whipple

Asu dreamed and the world was formed whole. All was both the dream and the dreamer. Then we chose form and we made thoughts. We saw things and non-things, we knew self and other. Thinking made a rift in the mind and in the body of he world. We were made from this wound. We were born of this cut. In this wound is the rift of time, the blood of life and death, the body of desire and pain. We came forth from the rift in bodies of pain and joy, bodies of fear and wonder. Through earthly being we have become the split that had formed in the world. We are no longer simply the ones who watch, now we must be the ones who choose! — William R. Cares

The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes — Daniel R. Scoggin

I do interview senior candidates at the home office or many of our hotel or restaurant General Manager candidates. My two favorite questions are "Tell me about a failure in your career, what you learned from it, and how you've leveraged this lesson" and "All of us are misperceived at one time or another. What's the most common way you're misperceived in the workplace and why?" Both of these questions require a certain amount of self-awareness and a willingness to not give pat, normal answers that we offer experience in interviews. — Chip Conley

I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers. — Chris O'Donnell

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. — Jim Lehrer

I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant. — Bobby Fischer

I know chances are if I don't give an interview or make a public appearance or statement from time to time, they'll invent one. Every so often, I suppose people ask, 'Whatever happened to that other Beatle, George Harrison?' And someone comes around with a ready answer, no matter how preposterous it seems. It's possibly the worst price one has to pay for what they call stardom. — George Harrison