Quotes About Expertise

Everybody's trapped in the thing he does best.

Be careful about making assumptions of expertise, ask experts if you can find them, reexamine your assumptions from time to time.

La revue a été faite par des praticiens, avant d'être des théoriciens.

Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

So when the orator is more convincing than the doctor, what happens is that an ignorant person is more convincing than the expert before an equally ignorant audience.

For the fact is that neither the grammarian nor any other person of skill ever makes a mistake in so far as he is what his name implies; they none of them err unless their skill fails them, and then they cease to be skilled artists. No artist or sage or ruler errs at the time when he is what his name implies; though he is commonly said to err.

And the same will be true of the orator and the oratory in relation to all other arts. The orator need have no knowledge of the truth about thongs; it is enough for him to have discovered a knack of persuading the ignorant that he seems to know more than the experts.

What do you take me for? Do you think I was born yesterday? Do you think I have never dealt in eggs?

I hate traveling with amateurs.

The owner, Julius Shimski, knew everything anyone could know about all things old—coins

Automation turns us from actors into observers. Instead of manipulating the yoke, we watch the screen. That shift may make our lives easier, but it can also inhibit the development of expertise.

how to avoid naive mistakes, how to recognize talent, how to work collaboratively, and how to ask for and make great use of expert advice.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

I think winning games is my biggest asset, knowing how to win.

It's always interesting when you play a part and then suddenly people think you're an authority on the subject.

I think I have automobile skills and musical background.

I'd manufactured more gearboxes probably in the aviation industry than anybody else.

You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body.

I was told I have to work 10 years to get a doctorate. Well, I have worked all that time to become a doctor in professional wrestling. So to speak, I have a Ph.D. in professional wrestling.

Doctors are very popular with women.

I don't want to go to general medical doctors.

I'm a good driver.

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.