Quotes About Expertise

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)...

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

I'm a librarian," he said. "I always know what I'm talking about.

I'm a librarian. I always know what I'm talking about

Mr Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.

the key to success isn't in all the things we do but in the handful of things we do well.

Most people think buying is investing, but they're wrong. Buying doesn't make you an investor any more than buying groceries makes you a chef.

Extraordinarily successful companies always have one product or service they're most known for or that makes them the most money.

An accountability partner provides frank, objective feedback on your performance, creates an ongoing expectation for productive progress, and can provide critical brainstorming or even expertise when needed.

Decision researchers were trying to reduce errors, which is important, but we also needed to help people gain expertise and make insightful decisions.

When people seek the help of a professional, they usually have certain expectations about how a competent one looks and behaves.

Many experts lose the creativity and imagination of the less informed. They are so intimately familiar with known patterns that they may fail to recognize or respect the importance of the new wrinkle. The process of applying expertise is, after all, the editing out of unimportant details in favor of those known to be relevant. Zen master, Shunryu Suzuki said, "The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.

Tommy Cooper finds a painting and a violin in the attic; takes them to an expert who says, 'You've got a Stradivarius and a Rembrandt. Unfortunately Stradivarius was a terrible painter and Rembrandt made awful violins.

Fancy has nothing to do with a good sword.

Competence is NOT enough.

Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

I am not afraid of an opponent who practiced ten thousand kicks once. What I am afraid of is an opponent who practiced one kick, ten thousand times

I don't fear the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks but the man who has practiced 1 kick 10,000 times!

I fear not the man that can throw a thousand different kicks once, but the man who can throw one kick a thousand times.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.