Quotes About Expertise

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

I have started many companies now worth more than $100 million. So I know a little about business.

People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

When Tom Hanks is in a film, you know it's going to be good.

Adnan Virk and I work so well together, he's got the terrific background from hosting 'Baseball Tonight.'

People think I just walk up to a sheer cliff and climb it with no knowledge of anything, when in reality, there's tons and tons of information out there, and I'm already well tapped into it.

Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end of the day, we don't know very much in economics.

I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.

We can use all the scientific tools, but it will never replace the palate or the talent of the chefs who are in the kitchen.

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

I can 100 percent compete at the top level in every game that I play.

Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.

I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body.

It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.

When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.

When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.

One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over.

I'm probably not as good in the topics that I'm less passionate about than the ones I spend all my time on.

I don't want to talk about the regulation of financial markets because that is not my sphere of expertise. It's a very complicated topic, and if I have written a number of books they are always on topics that I think I know something about.

Some of the Tories say, 'She left school at 16, she doesn't have a university degree, what does she know about education?' I say, I may not have a degree - but I have a Masters in real life.

Engineers don't have that sixth sense where we can just toss in things here and there like many chefs.

I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more.