Quotes About Expertise

Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; and those who can do neither, administer.

Management is now where the medical profession was when it decided that working in a drug store was not sufficient training to become a doctor.

Shoemaker, stick to your last.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else.

Did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

There are things to learn from people who have already done what you're trying to do.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

Actors are given songs that suit their voice and skill. At the same time, those songs which have a complicated tune and need expertise to perform should be given to trained singers.

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

It turns out the businessman knows more about how the economy really works than the chattering class. What a shock.

Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24 hours a day.

I've been playing the bass guitar for almost twelve years and fretless for about nine, so I've got quite a bit of mileage in my hands already.

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Many business intuitions and expertise are going to be valuable; they are telling you something useful, and you want to take advantage of them.