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Quotes About Expertise

By assuming that Shakespeare had to have experienced something to write about it with such accuracy and force, Malone also, unwittingly, allowed for the opposite to be true: expertise in the self-revealing works that the scant biographical record couldn't support–his knowledge of falconry for example, or of seamanship, foreign lands or the ways that the ruling class behaved–should disqualify Shakespeare as the author of the plays.
~ James Shapiro
the damage done by Malone was far greater and longer-lasting. He was the first Shakespearean to believe that his hard-earned expertise gave him the right, which he and many scholars have since tried to deny to others, to search Shakespeare's plays for clues to his personal life.
~ James Shapiro
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~ James Turner
proficient.
~ Jan Moran
no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
~ Jane Austen
Oh! certainly," cried his faithful assistant, "no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
~ Jane Austen
No other expertise can substitute for locality knowledge in planning, whether the planning is creative, coordinating or predictive.
~ Jane Jacobs
My skill level is so high I do things I don't even try to do.
~ Janet Evanovich
What I lack in expertise I make up for with desperation and tenacity, because I only get paid when I catch someone.
~ Janet Evanovich
Yeah. My skill level is so high I do things I don't even try to do.
~ Janet Evanovich
Do I tell you how to braid your hair? Don't tell me how to plow a field.
~ Janette Oke
Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.
~ Samuel Dash
Unlike Marvel, we are not setting up redundant organizations for expertise that exists. We will track all DC properties to measure financial success.
~ Diane Nelson
I would say 'competence' actually might be slightly more important than passion. I understand that it is important to feel strongly about things, but give me a competent dentist over a passionate dentist any day, if only because something about the phrase 'passionate dentist' is deeply unnerving.
~ Alexandra Petri
We have seen an unprecedented dispersion of authority, such that 'a person like you' is now one of the most credible spokespersons on business, along with technical and academic experts.
~ Richard Edelman
I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.
~ St. Vincent
I'm so unqualified to be a family therapist.
~ Mae Martin
I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.
~ Lucy Hawking
Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.
~ Ben Marcus
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
~ Arthur Miller
We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.
~ Atul Gawande
The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions that haven't traded as long, don't have bear claws up and down their backs like I do.
~ Jim Cramer
My name is not unfamiliar to anybody in the dance community. I'm talking the upper echelon of dance studios.
~ Abby Lee Miller