Quotes About Expertise

the person who acquires more knowledge develops an enhanced illusion of her skill and becomes unrealistically overconfident. "We reach the point of diminishing marginal predictive returns for knowledge disconcertingly quickly

In particular, the accurate intuitions of experts are better explained by the effects of prolonged practice than by heuristics. We can now draw a richer and more balanced picture, in which skill and heuristics are alternative sources of intuitive judgments and choices.

Mastery itself was the prize of the venture."1

in order to become a master of the unorthodox, you need to know the orthodox very well.

To go through the motions in a perfunctory or self-absorbed manner, no matter how expertly rendered, diminishes the beauty. It's about soul—and service without soul, no matter how elegant, is quickly forgotten by the guest.

Anyone claiming to be perfect at what they do is proof they don't know what the hell they're doing.

Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.

sabiduría es el arte diligentemente adquirido para vivir con destreza.

but then who said journalists need to know anything about their subject before spouting their ill-informed opinions to millions?

As the Duke of Wellington put it, "No man fears to do that which he knows he does well.

people don't get paid for what they know or for their credentials. They ONLY get paid according to the value they deliver.

No one will ever declare you as the expert, the authority, or number one in your market… this is something you need to choose to do for yourself.

A man with an experience is not at the mercy of a man with an opinion.

We are by now so accustomed to the cult of expertise that the very notion of honoring and paying heed to our directly felt experience of things—of insects and wooden floors, of broken-down cars and bird-pecked apples and the scents rising from the soil—seems odd and somewhat misguided as a way to find out what's worth knowing.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

His skills were supreme now, and he used them supremely.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice!

Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade.

A job you can learn in a single day is not skilled work.

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After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted or forgotten. The crash was the only real experience I had been through for years.

If you need a gun to do it with, you aren't doing it right." Sheriff Bud Smith.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

If one makes himself master of one vital book, he shall never become a commonplace man.