Top 552 Skilled Quotes & Sayings

I know Barao is a tough, skilled competitor. So am I.

You are skilled. I exhort you.

Those who are skilled in combat do notbecome angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice to become a great scale player or drill champion. You practice to become a musician or athlete. Likewise, one does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Unfortunately, we have to dial down low-skilled immigration. We have to recognize that there is more unemployment among the lesser-skilled workers than among the most-skilled workers.

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

For too long the U.S. immigration system has focused on accepting low-skilled immigrants. Basic economics tells us that the surge of low-skilled workers depresses wages and harms the prospects of American workers.

I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.

A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone.

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, exported, or severely under-compensated, all the right behavior in the world won't create better jobs with more pay.

Apprenticeship is a proven model for developing a skilled workforce.

Now Rubio, I like the way he plays. He's a very skilled player.

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

We [the USA] do have a big nation's problem. We have the problem of a nation that's got two oceans, oceans on either side. People come from all across the globe and want to live here and they want to work here and they want to invest here. And that's a good thing. And they make up this country. But as a people, we [americans] are not highly skilled in languages. We're not highly skilled in knowledge of other cultures. And that's a problem.

Fate has me highly skilled and loaded with talent.

Honestly, I feel I am very skilled, I work hard.

Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

For our international projects we developed an online skilled volunteer job board to help connect skilled individuals around the world who can help with the projects. This is the cost effective channel to achieve a wider reach, which you wouldn't have been possible without technology.

I love hanging out with skilled and motivated people.

UFC is street fighting in a cage. Boxing is a controlled, skilled talent. There's no comparison.

If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.

We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers, simply because they can get the foreign workers more cheaply. It has become a major means of circumventing the costs of paying skilled American workers or the costs of training them.

There are only two ways to have a middle class in your country: either you have highly skilled manufacturing jobs, or you have a highly skilled, well trained, knowledge-based workforce. In other words, college.

High-skilled workers increasingly choose lucrative jobs that don't serve or supervise low-skilled workers. Low-skilled productivity and wage growth has lagged as a result.

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.

The skilled players can be skilled players and they're not impeded.

Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.

We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements that they use either to dig the earth or to shovel the earth. I can't carry the loads. That's extremely specialized. But they are called unskilled, and I am called skilled because I can write with the pen. I cannot accept this. I find it extremely non-egalitarian to say they are unskilled and I am skilled. It's only a way of looking at it. Knowledge is also like that.

I'm a multi-skilled big.

There's no more skilled position in football than the offensive line.

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

Skilled leaders focus on "we," not "me."

I mean, there's enough people who have a job for years and are not good at it, so you should be skilled at what you do.

I know Julian Williams is a skilled fighter who's hungry.

You don't just have to be skilled and talented at tennis, but you have to be so physically strong.

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

When you graduate and come out with a degree in drama, that doesn't mean you're skilled and you're a professional.

Most small businesses failed because the owner was under skilled, not under capitalized.

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

The notion is tough guys challenge the bench and skill players never do. I'm considered a skilled player, but I don't carry myself like a skilled player.

What we want is for our young people to be skilled.

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit.

We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ] if we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.

A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.

A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

Skills are freedom. Get skilled up!

LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.

While low-skilled immigrants have a place in our economy, a greater priority needs to be placed on attracting high-skilled immigrants to match the economy's needs.

I am the most skilled parallel parker the world has ever known.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it.

Fortunately, I was technically skilled, so I didn't have to bludgeon people, I didn't have to batter them.