Quotes About Expertise

There are so many impassioned winemakers. I think there are more impassioned winemakers than chefs.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

In normal circumstances, if you want a job done well, you chose someone with experience doing that job.

I know CIA like the back of my hand.

I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

There are many brilliant people in the civil service and politics.

I'm not a baker, and I don't know anything about baking, and I don't claim to.

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.

It seems that, every day, a new brand is popping up, and everyone has become an expert on supplements and training. Hey, there's a lot of great brands and products out there, but there are also those just looking to grab a piece of the money pie.

There is a good supply of Russia experts out there - people who have lived there with lots of good experience - but the demand has just not been there from government.

There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.

There is no opposition between efficiency and justice; on the contrary, an institution run by those who actually do the work is likely to be more effective than one run by interchangeable exploiters who often lack any specific expertise in what they are supposedly managing.

Everybody knows I'm not a clay-court specialist. I'm not feeling so well on this surface.

As a plastic surgeon, I know the skin better than anybody because I see it in all the different layers.

My father's a dermatologic surgeon; my brother's a surgeon.

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

Economics is not brain surgery.

You cannot drive the car if you do not have a driver's license. You cannot do brain surgery if you are not a brain surgeon. You cannot even do a massage if you don't have a license.

I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.