Quotes About Expertise

I'm a good operator: good with food and good with math.

I was never very good at school with... humanities... anything which was more a matter of opinion.

We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.

People are so opinionated about things, and they don't even know what they're talking about, or can't even do it themselves.

Cecily: Oh, yes. Dr. Chasuble is a most learned man. He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows.

Ars est celaree artem.

This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money.

He had never measured a footprint in his life, and what he did not know about bloodstains would have filled a library.

The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.

And the more sexual images men and women absorb, the more they move from subjective attraction, colored by love and the emotions, to objective attraction, determined by an expertise in the human body that is rarely healthy to acquire. How many women begin to feel that their bodies are inadequate not intrinsically but in comparison to others? Too many.

True or false? Ars est celare artem (Art lies in concealing the art).

If any man love the instruments of any craft, the gods have called him.

I'm a bit uncomfortable, truth be told, with being seen as an expert, because there is always so much more to learn. I see myself as a perpetual student of the goddess

First, you need something to organize: ideas, material, scraps of expertise, recipes, prognostications, anecdotes, scurrilous gossip, anything that might be relevant to what you want to write. And you get this stuff by hoarding it, by faithfully making notes and squirreling them away.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident

well-directed though is a learned skill

Leonardo da Vinci had gained his expertise in the human form by exhuming corpses and dissecting their musculature.

Experts devote their life to training. Masters devote their training to life.

from the path of expertise, or refining skills, to the path of mastery, the moment I realized the connection between training and life.

You are the expert on your life and destiny. When you are paying attention, no one knows you better than you can know yourself.

As the martial artist and actor Bruce Lee said, "I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times.

The sweet spot for smart decisions, then, comes not just from being a domain expert, but also from having high self-awareness.

But there is virtually no relationship between being an expert and being seen as someone people can trust with their secrets, doubts, and vulnerabilities. A petty office tyrant or micromanager may be high on expertise, but will be so low on trust that it will undermine their ability to manage, and effectively exclude them from informal networks.

Smart practice always includes a feedback loop that lets you recognize errors and correct them - which is why dancers use mirrors. Ideally that feedback comes from someone with an expert eye - and so every world-class sports champion has a coach. If you practice without such feedback, you don't get to the top ranks.