Category Archives: Answers to Interviews

Preparing for an interview gives you confidence. It is easy to create a small dictionary of classic (in this case Shakespearean) answers to typical questions. The book “Your Daily Shakespeare” is an almost inexhaustible source.

Shakespeare, Presidential Elections and the Force of Habit

Posted on November 1, 2012 by jimmie

“How use doth breed a habit in a man!” (Two Gentlemen from Verona, act 5, sc. 4) Comments. In this entry’s instance the “use” refers to voting in the presidential elections to sustain two beliefs (through habit), that have proven false and documentably so. One is that voting is the essence of democracy. It would Read More

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Shakespeare on Equivocation, Confusion and Meaning

Posted on September 9, 2012 by jimmie

“We must speak by the card or equivocation will undo us.” (Hamlet, act 5, sc. 1) Comments. Two historians separated in time by millennia said the same thing, A historian must describe things “as they happened” (wie es eigentlich gewesen), according to Ranke (author of the monumental History of the Popes). Much earlier on Herodotus Read More

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Shakespeare on Salad Days and Inexperience

Posted on September 5, 2012 by jimmie

“Those were my salad days, When I was green in judgement.” (Antony and Cleopatra, act 1, sc. 5) Tips for Use.   Unless you are really old you can often attribute your errors to inexperience and get away with it. Though for many the salad days extend far longer than when the days were salad. A Read More

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Shakespeare on Procrastination and How to Avoid It

Posted on August 30, 2012 by jimmie

“… that we would do We should do when we would; for this ‘would’ changes And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; And then this ‘should’ is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing.” (Hamlet act 4, sc. 7) Tips for Use.  Stimulate prompt action after Read More

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Shakespeare on Indecision, Uncertainty and Doubt

Posted on August 24, 2012 by jimmie

“And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.” (Hamlet act 3, sc. 3) Tips for Use.  When you are undecided about an issue, as we all are many or most of the times. Or when you need to explain why you have not Read More

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Shakespeare on Passion, Enthusiasm and Dangers thereof

Posted on August 20, 2012 by jimmie

“What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.” (Hamlet, act 3, sc. 2) Tips for Use. Word of caution when you sense that the enthusiasm detectable at one moment in a group may be only momentary and destined to cool and abate when the passion of the moment is Read More

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Shakespeare on Straight Talk, Sincerity and No Beating Around the Bush

Posted on August 11, 2012 by jimmie

“What I think I utter and spend my malice in my breath.” (Coriolanus, act 2, sc. 1) Tips for use.  A good way to declare both your sincerity, particularly if there is a hint or innuendo that you may be hiding something. A characteristic or quality that would be ideal with many a politician. Or Read More

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Shakespeare on Reply to “I love you” and to Express Surprise

Posted on August 2, 2012 by jimmie

“Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins… (Merchant Of Venice, act 3., sc. 2) Tips for use. Words of love hang on a very thin thread from which it is easy to fall from the poetic to the rhetorical, the exaggerated and the ridiculous. The Read More

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Shakespeare on Supersonic Speed Leading to Excellent Performance Review

Posted on July 22, 2012 by jimmie

“I’ll put a girdle around the earth In forty minutes.” (Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 2, sc. 1) Tips for Use.  A good answer to the question, “When will you be back?” – especially if the questioner expects you to be back promptly and with mission accomplished. Clearly Shakespeare anticipated the space age and the concurrent Read More

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Shakespeare Quote, Hard Rock Groups, Hearing Loss and Irish Wolves

Posted on July 1, 2012 by jimmie

“Pray you, no more of this; ’tis like the howling of Irish wolves against the moon.” (As You Like It act 5, sc. 3) Comments. Applicable whenever your hearing is exposed to loud and very unpleasant or distasteful music – e.g. when your neighbors rehearse with their hard rock group. General opinions about music have Read More

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