{"author":"Richard N. Bolles","author_id":"Richard+N.+Bolles","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"..A disability is something within you. A prejudice is something within theemployer...Don’t look at yourself through their eyes. Look at yourself through your own eyes.","author":"Richard N. Bolles","tags":["disability","eyes","prejudice"],"id":6496,"author_id":"Richard+N.+Bolles"},{"text":"What the meaning of this period of unemployment is, now.One way to get at that definition is to ask ourselves, “What is this time for?","author":"Richard N. Bolles","tags":["employment","time"],"id":35646,"author_id":"Richard+N.+Bolles"},{"text":"..It is helpful to think of yourlife not in terms of work but in terms of music—particularly a symphony. A symphony, traditionally, hasfour parts to it—four movements, as they’re called. So does Life. There is the first movement, infancy;then the second movement, the time of learning; the long third movement follows, the time of working; andfinally, this fourth movement, traditionally called “retirement,” though now that is an increasinglycomplex concept. It is much better to think of it as the Fourth Movement, a triumphant, powerful ending tothe symphony of our life here on earth.","author":"Richard N. Bolles","tags":["earth","life","symphony"],"id":46747,"author_id":"Richard+N.+Bolles"},{"text":"Just because you can’t find them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. You’ve got to change the way you’relooking for them. Because there are always job vacancies out there.","author":"Richard N. Bolles","tags":["job","job-search"],"id":58505,"author_id":"Richard+N.+Bolles"},{"text":"If someone out of work knows only three words about their impending job-hunt, I’m willing to bet thosethree words will be: resumes/CV, interviews, and networking.","author":"Richard N. Bolles","tags":["cv","interview","job"],"id":121046,"author_id":"Richard+N.+Bolles"},{"text":"Self-introspection is the way to improve any company, any marriage, any nation. And any job-hunt.","author":"Richard N. Bolles","tags":["introspection","job"],"id":137298,"author_id":"Richard+N.+Bolles"},{"text":"Inventiveness depends upon two habits of mind, which we can adopt and develop: attention andcuriosity.Attention means paying attention.....Curiosity means just that. Endlessly curious. Endlessly asking questions. Endlessly wanting to knowhow, and why?","author":"Richard N. Bolles","tags":["curiosity","inventiveness","question"],"id":157612,"author_id":"Richard+N.+Bolles"},{"text":"Hope can give you wings, persistence, and energy. If you’re out of work, and want to stay upbeat, thengreet the sunrise, go for a walk, count your blessings, listen to beautiful music, drink more water thanusual, eat simpler, exercise more, laugh with your family and friends, watch cartoons, take naps in thedaytime if you can’t sleep well at night, but for heaven’s sakes, don’t obsess about depressing statistics.Just determine to find alternatives for everything you are doing about your job-hunt and your life. Youwant to be the exception to whatever the odds are, about anything. Hold on to Hope, and you can beatthose odds.","author":"Richard N. Bolles","tags":["hope","humour"],"id":159753,"author_id":"Richard+N.+Bolles"},{"text":"Call it anything else if you will—fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating—but “shyness” is the historic word for it.","author":"Richard N. Bolles","tags":["anxiety","fear","nervous","shyness","sweating"],"id":160225,"author_id":"Richard+N.+Bolles"},{"text":"For many of us, the job-hunt offers a chance to make some fundamental changes in our whole life. It marksa turning point in how we live our life.It gives us a chance to ponder and reflect, to extend our mental horizons, to go deeper into the subsoilof our soul.It gives us a chance to wrestle with the question, “Why am I here on Earth?” We don’t want to feel thatwe are just another grain of sand lying on the beach called humanity, unnumbered and lost in the billionsof other human beings.We want to do more than plod through life, going to work, coming home from work. We want to findthat special joy, “that no one can take from us,” which comes from having a sense of Mission in our life.We want to feel we were put here on Earth for some special purpose, to do some unique work that onlywe can accomplish.We want to know what our Mission is.","author":"Richard N. Bolles","tags":["job","job-hunt","life","mission"],"id":166208,"author_id":"Richard+N.+Bolles"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}