Semi Skilled Quotes

#1. I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

Toby Young

#2. The Negro's economic problem was compounded by the emergence and growth of automation. Since discrimination and lack of education confined him to unskilled and semi-skilled labor, the Negro was and remains the first to suffer in these days of great technological development.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. By his own account he had no real contact with the local colony of his countrymen and virtually no social intercourse with the Russian families and so resigned himself to becoming an incurable bachelor.

Franz Kafka

#4. How have a hundred men who wish for a master the right to vote on behalf of ten who do not? The law of majority voting is itself something established by convention, and presupposes unanimity, on one occasion at least. 6.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#5. One should never offend more men than one can persuade,

Philippa Gregory

#6. We be of one blood, thou and I -

Rudyard Kipling

#7. Managers and leaders cause most of the organizational confusion and frustration by not doing their jobs - their real jobs.

Liz Weber

#8. Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

Dave Barry

#9. Nobody had a bigger heart or passion to win than America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine "Pre." Watch the movies Prefontaine, Without Limits, or Fire on the Track to see what I'm talking about.

Robert Cheeke

#10. It's an old - and true - cliche that VCs rarely actually say 'no' - more often they say 'maybe', or 'not right now', or 'my partners aren't sure', or 'that's interesting, let me think about it'

Marc Andreessen

#11. You drink root beer while you watch an NBA game? You are an American wannabe, aren't you?"
"That is perhaps the most horrid thing you could say to an Englishman."
"Worse than French wannabe?"
"Well, there is that.

Shannon Hale

#12. A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

John Wooden

#13. [Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

George Sand

#14. A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.

Denis Waitley

#15. The colonel laughed, effectively halting Bingley's speech. "Uncharacteristically reclusive? Do we speak if the same man? Darcy's very character is defined by his reclusiveness! He prefers to keep his own counsel, especially when he ought to do the opposite - the bacon-brained buffoon.

KaraLynne Mackrory

#16. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing, and human activity is the probable cause.

Michael Crichton

#17. A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

Iain Duncan Smith

#18. Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

Alice Childress