Quotes About Expertise

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

If they need my C.V., they don't know my work.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work.

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

When you know the builder, you can have complete confidence in the quality of his work.

While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Handle your tools without mittens.

If you want to push design into new areas, you have to work closely across the boundaries of people's trades and professions. If you know the questions to ask, you can pull out the expertise.

By the work one knows the workman.

I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not.

Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.