Quotes About Expertise

I am actually a trained lab assistant.

I am a trained economist.

I am not a trained writer.

John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.

It's hard to find trainers to train, coaches to coach. Just because someone was great in the business doesn't mean they can teach someone else how to be great in the business; and just because someone wasn't great in the business, doesn't mean they can't teach somebody. I used to be a firm believer in the other.

Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

I'm a lawyer by training, of course.

The strange proposition that black intellectuals - regardless of their training - are 'race experts' mainly because they are black is naive and potentially dangerous.

Training, that's my specialty.

Radiative transfer calculations I can do standing on my head.

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

each individual can only do one thing well. He can't do lots of things. If he tries, he will be jack of all trades, and master of none.

Als je eenmaal hebt geaccepteerd dat niemand je ooit zal begrijpen en je hebt dat overweldigende gevoel van eenzaamheid overwonnen, dan heeft het wel iets prettigs, eerlijk gezegd. Jij bent de enige deskundige in je eigen kleine wereldje, en je kunt doen waar je zin in hebt.

Technical knowledge, divorced from what it is supposed to be knowledge of, yields only the illusion of understanding. It's like being able to reel off the locations in a baseball field -- first base, second base, third base, home plate, left field, right field, center field, pitcher's mound -- without having the slightest clue as to how they function in a game. You can talk the talk, but you can't walk the walk.

extreme specialization prevents scholars from developing a perspective.

I could do it… I've seen every last episode of Forensics Files." Me, too! But I've never considered it a tutorial. The

There were two things Chris knew well: his rifle and a woman's body. With either, he could spend hours studying their intracacies, their individual quirks and hots spots...their flaws. He knew when one of them was going to jam up and let him down or to give him the shot of his life. Rifles and women - he loved them both, but not necessarily in that order.

For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise.

He who knows more is more responsible.

The truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success.

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

In his view, a theory was nothing more than a substitute for experience put forth by someone who didn't know what he was talking about.

Wait," Lex said. "You're confusing it.…" "Will you shut up! You don't know anything about computers!