Quotes About Expertise

When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.

Then there is Abhimanyu Ray, Honey Trehan, Nandini Srikanth, Shanoo Sharma, we have so many great casting directors who have nothing to do with acting. You just need to have a great eye to understand the character.

My investment advice is rooted in my understanding of economics.

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.

Haseeb Hassan is a fantastic director. He really understands characters and their relationships. He always gives sound advice and direction.

I never had a traditional mentor. I know people who have been successful with a mentor, but I've never understood why I should limit myself to the knowledge and expertise of one person.

I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

It is unfair to say one doctor is better than the other based on a degree, especially because we are all trained together during residency.

I'm a costume designer. My career is not in fashion, a field I'm basically unfamiliar with.

As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the courts can never hope to have.

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.

As everyone knows, there is only one way to fry chicken correctly. Unfortunately, most people think their method is best, but most people are wrong. Mine is the only right way, and on this subject I feel almost evangelical.

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

Everybody is ignorant, Just on different subjects.

A good swordsman is more important than a good sword.

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

Knowledge is what you know, that gives you an edge overthe ordinary person.

A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and a sage is a genius in life.

Slaves of wisdom are masters of many.