Quotes About Expertise

There's an ingrained distrust in our society of highly intelligent, highly trained, highly competent persons. One need only look at the last presidential election for proof of that.

The explosion of human knowledge has accelerated to the point where even the most brilliant can't cope with it any more. Theories have rigidified into dogma just as they did in the Middle Ages. The leading experts feel obligated to protect their creed against the heretics.

A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

If you know something without having lived it, your audience experiences a credibility gap.

No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development.

Peter Drucker, dijo: "Mi mayor fortaleza como consultor es ser ignorante y hacer unas cuantas preguntas".

Creo que las personas deberían esforzarse por ser las mejores en su área, no en su organización.

Sydney Harris sums up the elements of a teachable mind-set: "A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

That LIKE A BOSS moment when you turn to the exact page in a book your teacher tells you too.

I hate traveling with amateurs.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

Never do anything yourself that you can hire someone else to do, especially if they can do it better.

...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.

A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing

Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.

I've found that people who design computers don't know a lot about displays.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

Education is what allows you to stand out

I have to know more than everyone else in the room. In a roomful of men, I have to know more than them.

They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.

No athlete on earth is as good at 'League of Legends' as I am.

I think it's important to have professional lessons or advice.