Quotes About Expertise

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about.

I love working on cars.

Many highly schooled people are uneducated, and many highly educated people are unschooled.

To exaggerate a bit: academic theology today is composed of specialists in an unrespected discipline who write for fellow specialists about topics that interest hardly anyone else.

Who ever saw one physician approve of another 's prescription, without taking something away, or adding something to it?

1. What does the author want to prove? 2. Whom does he want to convince? 3. What special knowledge does he assume? 4. What special language does he use? 5. Does he really know what he is talking about?

Knowing the rules of an art is not the same as having the habit.

To read Hotel Angeline is to celebrate how this diverse group of writers (and readers, all of them) can pool their talents and expertise to come up with such an entertaining and soul-satisfying novel.

The order of the day is specialization!

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE is among the most plentiful, and the cheapest forms of service which may be had!

He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.

Right then, in a nutshell: this one hasn't a single bone of obedient-little-wife material in her heavenly body.' 'Hasn't she? Then what kind of bone does your expertise detect?' Fermin came closer, adopting a confidential tone. 'The passionate kind,' he said, raising his eyebrows with an air of mystery. 'And you can be sure I mean that as a compliment.

good looks aren't enough. Skill is the most important thing. Skill and talent.

do not be misled by expert bravado or by an expert's own sense of how he or she is doing. Evidence is a much better guide than an impressive self-presentation.

Janis believed that groups are especially likely to suffer from groupthink if they are cohesive, have highly directive leadership, and are insulated from experts.

I felt there must be substance below the stuffed-shirt exterior. After all, he was a Lizzie Borden expert…

We can't continue to put people lacking the ability to understand a business in a position to run a business.

I'm always really comfortable writing strong, smart ladies. That's kind of my bailiwick.

There is a mentality that if you're a long time AMDer, that we're x86: we know what we're doing, and it's just about building better x86 devices.

The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.

Larry Merchant's just a commentator. He don't know nothing about boxing.

I'm better on the pitch than with the microphone.

When it comes to the greater Middle East, McMaster brings to the table his own deep knowledge of Iraq and Afghanistan, countries where he served for many years.