Quotes About Expertise

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you are better than others. My area is acting, I guess. I hope.

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

...if I can do it, it's not art.

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

Good heart does not produce science or even art, but knowledge does, intellect does and absolutely expertise does.

Only the painter who knows his business can create the impression that a picture was done in one stroke.

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.

Talent is an art of gaining admiration!

The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.

Our chief marketable skill, coming out of college, is the ability to write authoritatively about things we don't necessarily understand.

In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed tight. My fears evaporate when the automatic doors shush open.

Even a four-dollar cup was miraculous, given how many people were involved, and how much individual human attention and expertise was lavished on the beans dissolved in that four-dollar cup. So much human attention and expertise, in fact, that even at four dollars a cup, chances were some person—or many people, or hundreds of people—along the line were being taken, underpaid, exploited.

The less people seem to know about something, the more they pontificate on it.

A great hammer doesn't make a great carpenter; but a great carpenter will always want to have a great hammer.

Energy is my specialty and I do white papers and briefing documents and I help write speeches for the administration

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When most of the people who know the most about a subject are seen to agree, despite their competitiveness, then it's generally wise for policy to begin by paying heed to expert advice.

It is next to impossible to learn a complex skill by observation alone. One does not learn to play the violin by watching Heifitz or the piano by observing Rubenstein.

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I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my part.

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow'd.

The adept does not show himself;     He who shows himself's no adept.

Over time, a subtle cancer spread: where you have more experts, you create more bystanders. Professionals did all the fighting and fixing we used to handle ourselves; they even took over our fun, playing our sports while we sat back and watched.