Quotes About Expertise

Only when you get into TV and film, do people really want you to be a 'specialist'.

I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

Twenty thousand? Fifty? Five? Scholars make a career of not agreeing on anything.

Anyone who has mastered a weapon – truly mastered it – is a humble man or woman.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.

Thy shalt not worship thy investment advisor, for if she were so smart she would be retired by now.

I can't think of any other field in which people who aren't experts critique other people who aren't experts in the hope of everyone becoming an expert.

Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.

Hackers can do almost anything and be a hacker. You can be a hacker carpenter. It's not necessarily high tech. I think it has to do with craftsmanship and caring about what you're doing.

Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.

The best always make it look easy.

No one individual had one one-thousandth of the knowledge necessary to fully understand it all.

Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.

The Internet is filled with so-called experts who couldn't lace up a pair of boots.

I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.

Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.

Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.

Too often, farmers and producers are left out of the national conversation on the climate crisis - or even dismissed altogether. But in reality, their expertise is a big part of the solution.

On the national stage and in the neighborhoods of New York, Senator Hillary Clinton has repeatedly put her expertise and power behind solutions that make the lives of the American people safer and more prosperous.

I've often thought of successful entrepreneurs as individuals who have just the right expertise - at just the right moment - to solve the emerging problems of their time.

Fixing this broken system will take the perspective of someone who has actually solved problems. 31 years of manufacturing taught me how.