Quotes About Expertise

Wissen ohne Erfahrung taugt nicht viel.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

A writer who lives long enough becomes an academic subject and almost qualified to teach it himself. –

Don't charge by the hour. Charge by the years.

People know that Jacks of All Trades are Masters of None, and people seek out masters. They trust specialists. Try to appeal to thousands, and you will appeal strongly to no one. Find a niche.

It is very reassuring to your students that you know what you are doing.

If you could do this all the time without the system, you wouldn't need the system.

I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite - and one of the most capable - choreographers out there right now.

An expert is someone who doesn't want to learn anything new, because then he would not be an expert

I am a damn good high priestess of the intellect,

Besides, there wasn't much the lab could tell a physician in 1940 that a well-trained, observant doctor couldn't determine independently.

Steve paid attention to every nuance of the slides, even details that, as far as I could tell, were invisible to the naked eye, like font kerning—which is adjusting the space between letters—and font smoothing to make sure the curves on each font were perfect. He hired a presentation professional, Wayne Goodrich, to help finalize these details and to make sure that at every single stop on the road show, all the pieces were in place to show the presentation and video perfectly.

In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.

Focus on what you are good at; delegate all else. Jobs doesn't direct animated movies or woo Wall Street. He concentrates on what he's good at.

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

It's geeks who really make or break a TV show or movie or videogame.

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.

A person who spends eight years learning how to make a cake will probably make you a good cake, but a person who spends eight years as an aviator and a tailor and a math tutor and a trainer of bears in the circus will probably kill you in a plane he is flying very badly while wearing a shirt that doesn't fit and fighting off an ill-behaved bear, all the while insisting that seven times six is harmonica.

brought bone after bone to a skeleton expert until she told me that I was making her so miserable that I should never return

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

You're not very good at this, are you?' 'At what I do, I'm the best. This isn't what I do.

Paragraph 2 is the who you are paragraph. Don't gild the lily. Just put down your basic background and any literary awards or training you've received. If you are writing about your specialty (say, a lawyer writing a legal thriller), of course mention that, too.