Quotes About Expertise

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

It's one thing to talk about lack of diversity and lack of representation. But that doesn't matter if you're not good at what you're supposed to be doing.

I know exactly what I'm doing on the ice, and I'm in my element.

Herb Brown is like a basketball icon. What's the saying - he's forgotten more than I'll ever know.

My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

It's great to be thought of as the master of anything. Even idiocy. Master of idiocy, Wes Craven. But if it's master of horror or fear or whatever, that's great.

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

Anybody that says I don't have any experience in immigration cases doesn't know what the hell they're talking about.

A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.

For the role of a lawyer, I made sure I learnt the correct diction and most importantly I made sure I got the lawyer lingo correct.

If you don't know something, admit it. But, try to impress them with what you do know.

I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.

I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I may have a talent for acting, but I am incapable of doing anything else.

People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

the scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi showed, much of the most valuable knowledge we can possess and use isn't like that; it is "tacit knowledge." We feel tacit knowledge. And when we try to put it into words, the words never fully capture it. As Polanyi wrote, "We can know more than we can tell.

The value of experienced teams cannot be overstated, yet it is routinely disregarded.

Second, there's a problem with experience—the other half of experiri. If you are building a nuclear power plant, chances are that you haven't done much of that before for the simple reason that few have been built and each takes many years to complete, so opportunities to develop experience are scarce.