Quotes About Expertise

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel ' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

Too many consultants fall in love with their own methodology. Success in this business comes from marketing, not from the depth of consulting expertise. I know that this is heresy to many of you, but all the nonrainmaking consulting gurus are working for somebody else and merely earning a paycheck.

I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him.

Whatever subject I choose, I do a PhD in it.

If drama school was like doing a BA, coming to the Court was like an MA or a PhD.

Getting somebody like Phil Jackson to come in and build the team is sort of like getting Einstein to help you with your math homework.

I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

I can't stand when girls come to me and say they want to be a model, but they can't tell me who the top three photographers are in the world. They can't tell me who the top five biggest models are or name three cosmetics companies. They can't even name the top fashion magazines! You have to get it together and know your stuff.

TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.

So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself.

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

I'd no more listen to a physicist's advice on my fertility than I would let a mechanic cut my hair.

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn't work like that... There's a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

I want to meet Brandon Crawford and just pick his brain and figure out what helps him out on the defensive side of the ball.

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.

I understand every piece of business in this league.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.