Quotes About Expertise

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

When we eat something at a restaurant, however simple it may look, there's something in it that makes you think, 'Well, I couldn't quite do this from home.'

You could be a senior senator and have never managed more than a hundred people in your life.

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

It's better to practice one thing a thousand times, than practice a thousand things one time.

Melody's not a serious gamer like me

His training had consisted of learning a little bit about everything from people who knew everything about something.

Never do anything for the first time.

An amateur is anyone who hasn't learned how not to do it,' I said.

The work had fallen to me, it seemed, because I knew a little more than the next man, and I was willing to do it.

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

One strategy for getting ahead is being incredibly good at a particular skill; you need to be world-class to stand out for that skill. In my case, I layered fairly average skills together until the combination became special.

In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.

Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.

Some people play steel string beautifully, but I'm not exactly a world-class picker.

The thing people forget about Kevin Shirley a lot of the time is that he's not only a great producer, he's also a world-class engineer. He really knows how to get a sound.

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.

Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They are quite right to be. Telling girls that the cars and the guns are beyond their domain of expertise, and that they should content themselves with clothes and friendships, is limiting.

I suppose I'm worried that someday there will be some exciting experiments to do, and there won't be anyone around who knows what experiments are.

What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

I sometimes worry that maybe it's better to be really good at one thing than be okay at a couple things.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.

I'm an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.