Quotes About Expertise

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

I consider myself a basketball aficionado and really understand and know the nuance. I'm a fan of the game. But more than an everyday fan. I love the nuance of the game.

Those who know the least obey the best.

If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for long.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

I like observing intelligent people who have expertise in areas I'm mostly ignorant about.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

As a general rule, the United States government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice from economists. Others interested in helping the lawyers out need not apply.

I shoot occasionally, but I'm no gun expert.

My goodness', thought Milo. 'Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

Orison Swett Marden

The more you know of your own line of work, by so much do you set yourself a little apart from a hundred of your competitors who are content to let well enough alone.

efficiency never has to go begging for advancement; the man that masters his trade goes to the front.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

I'm only a god, Vanya, not an expert.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand.

Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

The merc was more than a person: like a spaceship launch, her existence implied thousands of skilled people, generations of experts, wars, treaties, scholarship, and supply-chain management. Every one of them was all that.

Detesto que la gente recurra a las presentaciones de diapositivas en lugar de pensar - recordaba Jobs -. La gente se enfrentaba a los problemas creando una presentación. Yo quería que se comprometieran, que discutieran los temas sentados a una mesa, en lugar de mostrarme un puñado de diapositivas. La gente que sabe de lo que está hablando no necesita Powerpoint