Quotes About Expertise

People can come to me, and no matter how expert they are, I can virtually always see a way of doing something better.

I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.

I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.

Well, I have been trained my entire life to recognize these outbreaks and recognize viruses. I have a Ph.D. in virology.

ultracrepidarianism, which means "the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge or competence.

Those who can't do, teach.

People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.

I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

You can't truly act as if you're a lawyer or a lifter until you know how to think like one.

When you watch an accomplished professional in any field, you are looking at innumerable hours of practice.

We all have, she knew, a place where we're not only most comfortable, but most competent

In expert tennis, 80% of the points are won, while in amateur tennis, 80% are lost. The same is true for wrestling, chess, and investing: Beginners should focus on avoiding mistakes, experts on making great moves." Erik Falkenstein

Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

Dopo i politici e i poeti mi rivolsi agli artisti e indovinate che cosa scoprii? Che costoro, coscienti di esercitare bene la propria professione, pensavano di essere sapienti anche in altre cose, magari più importanti e difficili.

A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

It turns out that I learned something from my dear old dad after all: firemen are experts at getting into places they shouldn't be.

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.

I was becoming acutely aware […] that Negroes rarely were allowed to be experts about themselves; others always knew more, wrote or said more, or at least what they said or wrote got around more and certainly was given more credence.

It ain't braggin' if y'really done it.

La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia

You don't have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.