Quotes About Expertise

emotional intelligence counts more than IQ or expertise

practical intelligence is rarely the main factor in a star's outstanding job performance.

the abilities that distinguish the outstanding supervisors in technical fields are not technical, but rather relate to handling people.14 So to a degree, experience and expertise, like IQ, matter—but there is much more to the story when it comes to excellence.

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise—and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

Some people are all self-presentation, with no substance to back it up. The varieties of social intelligence are no substitute for the other kinds of expertise that a given role may call for.

Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less—filling

On average, at least 95 percent of what you need to know you learn on the job. This is true for doctors, lawyers, nurses, investment bankers, and everyone else.

would go up the learning curve only once." These

"No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book."

What you love to do, you will learn to do well.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

What have I got better than anyone? Age.

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

Professionally, I have no age.

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

However, if we conceive of a culture as one body, which it is, we see that all of its disciplines are everybody's business, and that the proper university product is therefore not the whittled-down, isolated mentality of expertise, but a mind competent in all its concerns.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.

was thrilled by the manner in which the American worked his ship. With his

Plato complains that whereas in simpler matters—like shoe-making—we think only a specially-trained person will serve our purpose, in politics we presume that every one who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state.

A physician or engineer is free in his thoughts or his actions in the degree in which he knows what he deals with. Perhaps we find here the key to any freedom.

From whatever angle we approach our eternal political problem we monotonously reach the same conclusion: that the community should determine the ends to be pursued, but that only experts should select and apply the means; that choice should be democratically spread, but that office should be rigidly reserved for the equipped and winnowed best. (p.89/543)