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Quotes About Specialists

After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.
~ John L. Phillips
Those highly trained armor specialists were responsible for major repairs, upgrades, and modifications, but in Alicia's opinion, anyone who didn't want to stay hands-on with the standard maintenance and, especially, troubleshooting of her own armor just before a drop ought to be confined somewhere in a nice, soft-sided room where she couldn't hurt herself or anyone else.
~ David Weber
Pe cît de jalnic? ?i de nociv? a fost ?i este presta?ia moral? a jurnalismului din România, pe atît de steril? intelectual ?i nul? cognitiv este presta?ia puzderiei de poli?i?ti care, belfere?te, a monopolizat înv???mîntul superior cu ?tiin?a lor inutil?, producînd puzderie de Fachidioten – de speciali?ti incul?i, semidoc?i, limbu?i ?i, în cel mai bun caz, retori.
~ Unknown
There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.
~ Isaac Asimov
Librarians and other information specialists have developed user's guides to evaluating websites. These include questions we should ask, such as "Is the page current?" or "What is the domain?" (A guide prepared by NASA is particularly helpful.)
~ Daniel J. Levitin
Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.
~ Michael Haneke
specialists. In all speculative episodes there is always an element of pride in discovering what is seemingly new and greatly rewarding in the way of financial instrument or investment opportunity. The individual or institution that does so is thought to be wonderfully ahead of the mob.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.
~ Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
The prevention and treatment of unhealthy sleep habits in infants and young children is important, because if those habits are uncorrected, they will persist. There is no automatic correction. Children do not simply outgrow these problems. Adult sleep specialists commonly see incurable adult insomniacs, chronically disabled from sleepiness and dependent on sleeping pills, who correctly describe themselves as never sleeping well as children.
~ Unknown
Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.
~ Mark Hyman
Irony alert: the most important news story in the world is the inability of the ordinary news consumer to understand the news. This is no dig against readers. The world has just grown so complex that the majority of serious issues are beyond the understanding of non-specialists.
~ Matt Taibbi
forensic specialists in the world, and endure for life. No one could apply; one
~ Unknown
Cadavers and spirits are human refuse, and they are absurdly difficult to dispose of properly. When someone dies, a small gang of specialists is required to remove and inter the body in such a way that it can always be located precisely at any time while preventing it from ever appearing again.
~ Unknown
Sharp, incisive, clever thinking is steadily becoming a lost art, more and more the domain of specialists and gurus. The trend is troubling and raises the question, Is America losing its ability to think? If, for argument's sake, we define thinking as the use of knowledge and reasoning to solve problems and plan and produce favorable outcomes, the answer is, apparently, yes.
~ Unknown
Specialists debated whether to pull the plug, but Texas only executes people on death row, not when they're brain-dead, because it might mean culling most of their politicians.
~ Michael Robotham
Je m'adresse à tous ceux qu'on n'a jamais aimés, Qui n'ont jamais su plaire; Je m'adresse aux absents du sexe libéré, Du plaisir ordinaire. Ne craignez rien, amis, votre perte est minime : Nul part l'amour n'existe. C'est juste un jeu cruel dont vous êtes les victimes; Un jeu de spécialistes.
~ Michel Houellebecq
It is usual to explain the motivation of those who enjoy dangerous activities as some sort of pathological need: they are trying to exorcise a deep-seated fear, they are compensating, they are compulsively reenacting an Oedipal fixation, they are "sensation seekers." While such motives may be occasionally involved, what is most striking, when one actually speaks to specialists in risk, is how their enjoyment derives not from the danger itself, but from their ability to minimize it.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Umoristica (medica): "Gli specialisti sono mistici e sapienti come i Magi, ma funzionano al contrario: sei tu che devi andare da loro
~ Niall Williams
pain specialists were validating the commercial research and development that Richard and his colleagues were doing at Purdue.
~ Unknown
Loi and Eldlund were a lot more cautious – we should investigate longer, bring in more equipment and specialists, make detailed risk assessments. Typical corporate culture kids. They had no concept of taking responsibility, because that meant consequences – and Legal always hated consequences.
~ Peter F. Hamilton