Quotes About Expertise

Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

Chapter 10 Precision and Professionalism

What an insane waste! We could have worked together, traded supplies, technical expertise. Who knows what we could have accomplished if we had only chucked the politics and come together as human bloody beings.

THE CURSE OF KNOWLEDGE: When we have expertise or knowledge in a given area, we have difficulty understanding what the problem would look like to those who lack such expertise or knowledge.4 Thus, teachers often lack empathy for students who lack their knowledge.

The task of being right is a task the father perfects over time.

In 1982, his biggest investment was Treasury bonds; right after that, he made Chrysler his top holding, even though most experts expected the automaker to go bankrupt; then, in 1986, Lynch put almost 20% of Fidelity Magellan in foreign stocks like Honda, Norsk Hydro, and Volvo. So, before you buy a U.S. stock fund, compare the holdings listed in its latest report against the roster of the S & P 500 index; if they look like Tweedledee and Tweedledum, shop for another fund.7

Las perspectivas evidentes de crecimiento físico de un sector no se traducen en beneficios evidentes para los inversionistas. Los expertos no disponen de formas fiables de elegir y concentrar sus inversiones en las empresas más prometedoras de los sectores más prometedores.

we draw two morals for our readers: Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors. The experts do not have dependable ways of selecting and concentrating on the most promising companies in the most promising industries.

Il y a deux sortes de savants : les spécialistes, qui connaissent tout sur rien, et les philosophes, qui ne connaissent rien sur tout.

be a person with knowledge not just opinions

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.

Casual experience of life is of very little use to a specialist, such as I aspire to be; good manners are absolutely useless.

John Higgins is an absolute legend. He has such a good reputation.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result of 400 years of science, right? I mean, in the 18th century, in the 18th century you could become an expert on any field of science in an afternoon by going to a library, if you could find the library, right?

It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

My own beliefs are that the road to a scientific discovery is seldom direct and that it does not necessarily require great expertise. In fact, I am convinced that often a newcomer to a field has a great advantage because he is ignorant and does not know all the complicated reasons why a particular experiment should not be attempted.

Through Duke Energy's strong balance sheet and electric generation expertise, and Piedmont's understanding of natural gas markets and proficient operations, the combined company will be well-positioned for a future that may require additional natural gas infrastructure and services to meet the needs of our customers.

'Competent counsel' ought to require more than a human being with a law license and a pulse.

I started off as a contestant and I realise that it's not easy being scrutinised by experts. And when you are a judge you need to ensure you are judging fair. Both require a lot of hard work and commitment.

To me, big roles are not required to showcase talent.