Quotes About Expertise

Those who can, do; those who do and understand, teach.

Forget about the 10,000-hour rule you've heard so much about. It's a red herring. What's important is not the hours you've practiced, but the kind of practice in your hours. Focus on the tree, not the forest.

Beginners often can't perceive errors unless they're big ones, massive clams that cause the musical endeavor to come crashing to a halt. At this point, beginning practicers usually compound the error by returning to the top of the tune for another attempt, instead of fixing the error immediately, like experts do.

Experts who accumulated 10,000 hours of practice weren't trying to accumulate those hours; their focus was elsewhere, on the task at hand.

she'd heard he was some sort of karate honcho, occasionally

Amateurs and single-issue activists have their uses, but without hacks the machine fails, which is why it puts such a premium on people who pay their dues and work their way up the ranks.

Most of the studies on chess thinking are related to expertise and really they are about perception. they deal with our visual take on positions rather than the thinking as a productive process. Chess ability stems from noticing patterns over time and recognising in related contexts. Patterns are the raw material of the trunking process, they are constellations of pieces that we gradually become to understand as competitively meaningful.

You're not our leader,' Dave said. 'No, but I know what I'm doing, which is a nice alternative.' - Lucy

It may look easy but making it look easy is all to do with skill.

The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one-track mind.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

Trust me. I'm a genius.

The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

The domain experts had learned more and had clarified the goal of the application.

Because the domain experts are feeding into it, it reflects deep knowledge of the business and those abstractions are true business principles.

One problem with the discipline of marketing is that everyone knows enough about it to make suggestions, but most don't know enough to offer good advice.

Well, no programmer could direct Karpov's initiative as a whole. The best ones are like idiot savants: they know their stuff backward and forward, but that's all they're good for. They couldn't direct themselves out of a paper bag." She pursed her lips. "So again, I have to ask, who is running the operation now?

many libraries now have in-house programming expertise. Computerized search methods for libraries were initially developed by advanced and technically sophisticated user institutions. Development began in the United States in the 1970s with work by

Jayfeather was already expertly separating

Good at his job, I guessed, but probably not at ease with things that fall outside his comfort zone. He was going to love us.

Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door.

I believed—that all three were very well qualified