Sometimes it is very difficult to find the first sentence of one’s cover letter. Therefore it’s better to use a quotation of someone else who has said it before you. There are a lot of quotations that we use in our everyday life without even realizing it.

In the case of my cover letter I came upon a few instances where the quotation was “right in its place” and was directing the reader’s attention. I would say that this sentence is like a nice introduction whose role is to stimulate the reader to go on reading. Reading till the end of the page. A sentence that would touch you from “inside” and you would recognize yourself in it. Here are my ten suggestions that “deepened” my curiosity. I came upon them when I looked for examples of  cover letters. Some of them could be the sentence winning you your new job. Who knows?

• “If you want to experience things that you’ve never experienced, you should do things that you’ve never done before.” -Will Rodgers
• “An expert is a man that has done all possible mistakes in a very narrow field.” -Nils Bor
• “Find yourself a job that you like and you’ll never have to work again.” Confucius
• “I don’t work for anything else than the feeling that I get then.” -Alberto Giacometti
• “Every problem that I solve becomes a rule that helps me in solving other problems later on.” -René Descartes
• “Talent comes from God and its realization – from man.”- Ilia Sheveliov
• “Work is not a location, it’s an action”- Unknown
• “Filled with inspiration, the spirit knows no boundaries”- Patanjali
• “Army discipline is heavy, but this is the heaviness of the shield, not of the yoke”- A. Rivarol
• “Luck is what happens when training meets good chance”-Henry Ford

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