Quotes About Expertise

First of all, you want to make sure you find a doctor that is a board-certified specialist in whatever that field is - whatever it is - whether it's plastic surgery, facial plastic surgery, ocular plastic surgery, brain surgery, whatever it is. And two, if they do a procedure, you want to make sure they do a lot of it.

Amitabh doesn't surprise me because he has been there, done that.

At the top level you know most things about the best clubs, there aren't too many surprises.

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment. ( A Qualified Farewell )

When a woman is a really good driver she is just about perfect.

It's deplorable that academia should prostitute itself, but there it is. Not even Harvard is above it. In fact, Harvard least of all, with that ludicrous delusion of self-importance that makes every Harvard professor feel he's a public intellectual, qualified to comment on issues far beyond his expertise.

He was already telling me about the very important book--with that smug look I know so well in a man holding forth, eyes fixed on the fuzzy far horizon of his own authority.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we're throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

Bütün yan?tlar? bildiÄŸinize inan?n, bütün yan?tlar? bilirsiniz. Usta olduÄŸunuza inan?n, usta olursunuz.

It always works when you know what you're doing

suspect that neither the Cambridge nor the Oxford astronomer really believed that theologians have any expertise that enables them to answer questions that are too deep for science.

But if science cannot answer some ultimate question, what makes anybody think that religion can? I suspect that neither the Cambridge nor the Oxford astronomer really believed that theologians have any expertise that enables them to answer questions that are too deep for science.

The notion that religion is a proper field, in which one might claim expertise, is one that should not go unquestioned.

I don't know what makes people do what they do, or call themselves what they call themselves, only that you have to live someone's life to be the expert.

I need to discuss science vs. engineering. Put glibly: In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it.

Almost all professionals are slow to use their own expertise for their own work.

There are better and worse ditch diggers and garbage collectors. People who work in industry know that no matter how apparently mindless a job is, the job can still be done better or worse, with significant economic consequences.

I already have a doctorate in conflict investment. I don't really need the gifted-amateur reading list.

I'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher.

The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

It seemed such a brief while ago that they were all laughing at Professor Nikolayev's definition of a musicologist. Imagine we are eating scrambled eggs, the Professor used to say. My cook, Pasha, has prepared them, and you and I are eating them. Along comes a man who has not prepared them and is not eating them, but he talks about them as if he knows everything about them - that is a musicologist.

I'm never going to get these folds just so, she remarked. We'll practice that, too, Alec promised. She didn't start to blush until Father Murdock asked what else they were practicing. Perhaps I could lend my expertise, he suggested eagerly. A private matter, Jamie blurted out. We can't use your assistance, Father, but we both thank you for offering. Alec's devilish smile widened.

As I reach my thirtieth year of service as a butler in a gentleman's household, I find myself looking back. Between my secret recipe for boot blacking (an indispensable tool for a butler), and a vastly superior method to remove wine stains from velvet (which some will erroneously hold to be an impossibility), I find my memories salted with some faint wisdoms, a few tested experiences, and many, many interesting stories.

I'm good at digging