Quotes About Expertise

I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.

I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.

People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.

11. Upgrade your key skills: The more knowledgeable and skilled you become at your key tasks, the faster you start them and the sooner you get them done. Determine exactly what it is that you are very good at doing, or could be very good at, and throw your whole heart into doing those specific things very, very well.

a blindfolded chimpanzee throwing darts at the stock listings can select a portfolio that performs as well as those managed by the experts.

The largest, longest study of experts' economic forecasts was performed by Philip Tetlock, a professor at the Haas Business School of the University of California–Berkeley. He studied 82,000 predictions over 25 years by 300 selected experts. Tetlock concludes that expert predictions barely beat random guesses. Ironically, the more famous the expert, the less accurate his or her predictions tended to be.

Each of us is the ultimate expert on the gentleness and understanding we deserve.

If you're going to get technical, you're going to lose all your friends.

Que haya cosas que el observador ordinario, o incluso el experto, no entiende, es inevitable.

One of the great commandments of science is, "Mistrust arguments from authority." (

A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

Our skills, you will find, could be our jailers.

Something like a small blue supernova flared for a moment in the depths of his eyesockets. It dawned on Mort that, with some embarrassment and complete lack of expertise, Death was trying to wink.

When the humours were handed out, Ankh-Morpork got the one for joking and Quirm had to do make do with their expertise in fine dining and love-making.

Nobody in media and journalism knows more about 'deep state' than I do.

Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.

I am not a journalist or an academic.

I am a better journalist than I am a businessman.

People should judge me for what I've done in 25 years. I'm not a rookie in F1.

There is a particular set of values commonly associated with being professional. Experience, expertise, trustworthiness, wisdom, and good judgement are all attributes aspired to by senior professional people, be they doctors, engineers, lawyers, civil servants, or the clergy.