Quotes About Expertise

He'd sensed the strength she'd called on to haul her sexuality out from under the weight of infertility. In his experience childlessness in women either warped into a dedication to self-hating sexual expertise or formed a subsonic noise of sadness and loss.

complete submergence of the acquired skill in the subconscious.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.

People who are experiencing a problem are the most likely to know its solution.

They also saw her expertise. For instance, George Soros, the Hungarian-born financier and philanthropist, introduced her in his Manhattan living room by saying, "Hillary knows more about Eastern Europe than any other American." After she was elected to the U.S. Senate on her own merits, she worked constructively, even with old enemies there, and was solidly reelected to a second term.

Nothing is as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated on.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that my art is not above the ordinary.

It is a scholar's weakness, to run narrow and deep.

Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you.

you don't have to worry about "finding" your passion. You're naturally going to get passionate about what you are good at.

Everything you learn in school can be outsourced to someone who learned it more cheaply or learned it more recently.

Ultimately, mastery is about connecting the dots of many fields.

Most people are not truly talented at anything. However, most people can be pretty good at something.

Opinions are like money. No matter how much you know, there's always someone who knows more.

Mastery begins when formal education ends.

So here's the solution and it works and can be applied at any age: get good at three, four, or five things. Then find the intersection. Then become the best in the world at the intersection. That's how you can pretend to do your special purpose.

Go to the bookstore. Find a topic you would be willing to read five hundred books on.

doing what you are good at will only make you good;

It is an understanding of what you can be the best at. The distinction is absolutely crucial.

There is all the difference in the world between knowing about and knowing how to do.

I think it's necessary for VR to start with an early adopter audience that's highly engaged, and I think that means gamers. They're the ones who have the high-end hardware and the expertise and the patience to sort through the uncertainty of it all.

I thought that I knew the world pretty well. I mean this is what I do for a living, I've been in government or in the Navy Reserves for 13 years. I've got an undergraduate degree and a master's degree focused on that stuff so I would put myself on the what I thought was the more well educated end of the spectrum on these things.

I think the people that need to see my talent are seeing it, people who understand F1 well are valuing my performance.