Quotes About Expertise

An outsider may wonder how deep a specialist must dig his hole before he realizes that he has lost sight of the horizon...

Specifically, Kahan identified "scientific curiosity." That's different from scientific literacy. The two qualities are correlated, of course, but there are curious people who know rather little about science (yet), and highly trained people with little appetite to learn more.

the "curse of knowledge" is a constant obstacle to clear communication: once you know a subject fairly well, it is enormously difficult to put yourself in the position of someone who doesn't know it.

It was a brisk, polite town. It did not know shit about shit, and did not care to know. Norman Bowker leaned back and considered what he might've said on the subject. He knew shit. It was his specialty. The smell, in particular, but also the numerous varieties of texture and taste. Someday he'd give a lecture on the topic. Put on a suit and tie and stand up in front of the Kiwanis club and tell the fuckers about all the wonderful shit he knew. Pass out samples, maybe.

If you're really good, they'd taught him at Quantico, you don't have to be arrogant.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit; he knows one thing extremely well and is ignorant of almost everything else.

The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

in the arena of economic policy, the citizens of today's democracies have learned altogether too much modesty. We have been advised that these are matters for experts: that economics and its policy implications are far beyond the understanding of the common man or woman—a point of view enforced by the increasingly arcane and mathematical language of the discipline.

In some corner of your life, you know more about something than anyone else on earth. The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.

The difference can be summed up in one word: authorization. I don't need authorization to get in. It's the word that instantly transforms me from the World's Most Wanted Hacker to one of the Most Wanted Security Experts in the world. Just like magic.

See, mis tuleb asjatundjatel kogemuse kaudu omandada, on psühhopaatidel algusest peale käes.

Editorship and expertise are like vitamins for the food. You don't need much of them, just a trace even for a large body. Too much will be toxic, or just flushed away. The

A person can't put a price on somethin' as valuable as experience an' knowledge.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

There's something about doing a job well that is akin to art.

You have some special expertise in sensor configurations of which I am not aware?

He might be a genius, but that did not make him a leader

never brag about your expertise. Instead, wait for the opportunity to showcase your skills and watch all the jaws drop.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.

tradesman who

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

Fish swim in water; they do not give it a second thought; but the scientist who analyzes water is far more informed about the aquatic environment