Quotes About Expertise

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

I will use my expertise in technology to bring the IRS up to date.

There is no comparison between the training here and the training in Israel.

I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.

Roberto Donna is a great Italian chef.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game.

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

Jeremy can't do anything. I've never discovered anything he can do. I mean, he can drive a car round a track pretty well, but he wouldn't be able to light a fire.

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.

Jay Leno told me once, 'Don't do jokes about things you don't know about.'

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Only gradually did I realize that this lack of qualification could be an advantage. By the time most scientists have reached age thirty they are trapped by their own expertise. They have invested so much effort in one particular field that it is often extremely difficult, at that time in their careers, to make a radical change. I, on the other hand, knew nothing, except for a basic training in somewhat old-fashioned physics and mathematics and an ability to turn my hand to new things. I

Madeleine Cranmere met him in the hall and showed him over the ground floor herself. She appeared delighted to listen to his rapturous enthusiasm, and consulted him on a few points as if he were an expert on the period. He was not, but he knew enough about it to be able to advise her roughly, and was far too flattered by the earnest way in which she listened to gather that actually she knew a great deal more about the points in question than he did.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

An expert is one who does not have to think. He knows.

Evangelicals are experts at adopting heroes, since their community produces so few with both moral standing and intellectual firepower.

With a deftness born of long practice, she

Too much expertise, as we have seen, can fortify the associative barriers between fields. At the same time, expertise is clearly needed in order to develop new ideas to begin with.

The man who has knowledge is considered most outstanding among people, Even if he does not occupy a position of nobility among his people. Wherever he settles, he can make a living from his knowledge. A man who possesses knowledge is no stranger anywhere.

Academics, think-tank executives, scientists, and high-level bureaucrats, as well as well-educated managers of major companies and their technical staff, are naturally attracted to the idea of a society ruled by professional experts with "enlightened" values—that is, by people much like themselves.10 This

The only way you win is by knowing what you're good at and what you're not good at, and sticking to what you're good at.

Most execs, particularly first-time CEOs who get good at one thing, can only dance what they know how to dance.