Quotes About Expertise

who didn't know how to use a shotgun?

The man who was speaking had a degree in jargon and a doctorate in nonsense.

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not 'singular' or 'distant,' or whatever you like to call him.

Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.