Quotes About Expertise

Technocrats are guys whom, when you ask them a question and when they have finished answering, you don't understand the question you asked any more! (Michel Colucci known as Coluche)

Competency comes with repercussions.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

When you're good, you're good!" -Godmothers Series

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs

Anyone can be a film critic. The apprentice supposedly need not possess a tenth of the knowledge that would be demanded of a critic of literature, music or painting. A director must live with the fact that his work will be called to judgment by someone who has never seen a film of Murnau's.

La regla de las diez mil horas

Young people are experts on leisure, water skiing, dancing, rock music, rapping, TV watching . . . by and large, chores are a thing of the past.

in the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.

No, the one thing all IT people do have in common is this: They think they know better than the boss.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

My background is in health care.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Do not do that which others can do as well.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Galen went so far as to assert that no one could be a good doctor unless they were also a philosopher, and he prided himself, with justification, on his own philosophical ability.

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

The number of people who could deliver a kick to the balls with Aomame's mastery must have been few indeed. She had studied kick patterns with great diligence and never missed her daily practice.

When technical experts mystify their audiences rather than enlighten them, they lose support—and "no" is always an easier answer than "yes.

No one looks at your hands to see how much they shake when you are interviewed to be a surgeon. The physical skills required are no greater than for writing cursive script. If an operation requires so much skill only a few surgeons can do it, you modify the operation to make it simpler.

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.