Quotes About Expertise

If your whole team consists of novice programmers, your expertise will give you considerable power; but if the other team members are also experts, they will attach less importance to your technical expertise. In that case, they'll pay more attention to organizational power, like the power to acquire extra hardware, to extend the schedule, or to capture a more interesting assignment.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest, unassuming ignorance, than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

Most experts suggest that one should open with a joke. Obviously, they've never heard me tell a joke.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

The same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

All men look at Dr. Ruth and wonder how she has gained all that sexual experience.

What I do, I do very well, and what I don't do well, I don't do at all.

He who can does. He who can't, teaches.

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.

a leader should never delegate that which he had not done before and done well.

Roarke) Those who can't, teach. Isn't there some saying along those lines? (Eve) She gave him a blank look. If you can't do something, how the hell can you teach somebody else to do it?

Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise. Man, for so many reasons she shouldn't feel like she did about him.

Can you give me an example of how the lack of real world experience would hurt the researcher?

The more you study, the more you subsequently know; naturally, the more you know, the nearer you get to perfection as a journalist.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.