Quotes About Expertise

el placer de la erudición está reservado a los perdedores. Cuanto más sabe uno, es que peor le han ido las cosas.

Finally, remember this fundamental principle: the more you narrow the field, the better and more safely you will work. Always prefer a monograph to a survey. It is better for your thesis to resemble an essay than a complete history or an encyclopedia.

Les perdants, comme les autodidactes, ont toujours des connaissances plus vastes que les gagnants, pour gagner il faut savoir une seule chose et ne pas perdre son temps à les connaître toutes. Le plaisir de l'érudition est réservé aux perdants.

You mustn't fool yourself with the idea that you could hire experts to attend to things; for how could you know that a man was an expert, unless you knew as much as he did? Some day your foreman might drop dead, or some other fellow would buy him away from you, and then where would you be? Be your own expert, said Dad!

For us, a People department is less of a group of functional experts focused on engagement and employee wellbeing and more of an operational unit that serves the business and supports its strategy. All People practices, including compensation, need to create tangible value for the company's stakeholders, especially for its customers.

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

If you're going to be an expert in something, then you need to be an expert in all aspects of it. From what makes it work to what makes it desirable to what makes it flawed.

Experience alone does not create knowledge

Laß dir von keinem Fachmann imponieren, der dir erzählt: "Lieber Freund, das mache ich schon seit zwanzig Jahren so!"—Man kann eine Sache auch zwanzig Jahre lang falsch machen.

I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.

Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch, or even a joke; have never worked in a theatre, taken an acting class, or published any extended piece of work. They are creative virgins; everything they know about theatre is book-learned and second-hand.

Don't do anything that someone else can do.

The letter I received said you had need of my particular talents, but I must confess that I have so many talents that I am not sure which one you require.

Because that is how we do it—we approach pregnancy like a job, gobbling up everything we can on the subject so that we are experts on every theory. And, as with most jobs, a certain amount of drudgery accrues. I have discovered that, in addition to ensuring mastery of these theories, this strategy to parenting also, unfortunately, results in utter confusion and frustration.

Unique Ability is the essence of what you love to do and do best. There are four characteristics of Unique Ability: It's a superior ability that other people notice and value; you are passionate about using it and want to use it as much as possible; it's energizing both for you and others around you; and there's a sense of never-ending improvement—you keep getting better and better and never run out of possibilities for growth.

You can't teach somebody to do something if you don't even know how to do it yourself.

I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.

You've nailed

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

But he's not known for taking on apprentices.

The best way to learn about a subject is to write a book about it." I

Roughly, execution and understanding are merely different exercises of knowledge of the tricks of the same trade.

After a certain age, you finally become the indisputable authority on the subject of yourself.