Quotes About Expertise

Unless you completely devote yourself to one practice, you'll never really master it.

A rifle is elegant. It's an extension of your will. Take aim, squeeze the trigger, make things happen. In the hands of an expert with stillness inside of him, there's nothing more deadly than a good rifle.

Allomancy wasn't just about fighting and killing. It was about skill and grace. It was something beautiful.

Mastery requires feedback.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

The precision of a filmmaker is like the precision of a surgeon.

Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

It takes less time to do a thing right than explain why you did it wrong....

There are many people with technical expertise who lack the negotiating skill needed to sell their ideas. As a result they feel frustrated.

The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.

At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.

My bread and croissants wouldn't win a prize! I'm not an expert in yeast cookery.

When you hire Sam Jackson, he'll figure out the character, and he'll figure out the character's look, and he'll provide it to you. With Sam Jackson, you basically yell 'action', you go get a sandwich, and you come back and yell 'cut.'

So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor.

If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.

You have to have some form of talent. Getting to a skill-set when you can do something is achievable. Getting to a skill-set when you can do it an elite level is a different thing.

And honestly, I'm not being cocky, I'm not talking trash, but anybody who beat me would have to get lucky. Nobody is just going to out-technique me.

I'm definitely a jaded traveler, but you try to make the best of what you know about the experience. Like, I know how to pack a bag. I know that checking a bag is for rookies.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

The Mayo Clinic is one of the largest and most experienced medical centers treating esophageal cancer in the world.

People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions about personal healthcare are no longer made by the treating physicians in consultation with their patients, and based on the doctors' expertise.