Quotes About Expertise

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

Stupidity is like art. Everyone can do it, but only the truly gifted are masters at it.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

Tiene algo de diferente la oración? Es un hábito que se debe cultivar. Una disciplina que hay que desarrollar. Una habilidad que hace falta practicar. Y aunque no quiero reducir la oración fervorosa a llevar la cuenta del tiempo que se pasa en ella, si quieres llegar a ser un experto en ella, es posible que te lleve diez mil horas. Una cosa sí sé con toda seguridad: mientras más grande es el sueño, más ardientemente tendrás que orar.

If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

Follow the cream of the crop in your area of online expertise and learn from them. Network with them.

learn the trade, not the tricks of the trade.

I know the Blue Rose Task Force is charged with the investigation of matters that would make most average citizens—or the world's most expert neurophysicists, for that matter—flee from the room with their hair spontaneously combusting.

A communications expert once made this distinction: "A know-it-all who doesn't know what he is talking about is a jerk. A know-it-all who does know what he is talking about is just an ass.

A know-it-all who doesn't know what he is talking about is a jerk. A know-it-all who does know what he is talking about is just an ass.

BPR and state highway engineers had enormous confidence in their own expertise, but they were unprepared for the upsurge of citizen opposition to the urban interstates.

For, while the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

Yet Yogi Bhajan describes mastery of this practice as arising from teaching it: "If you want to learn something," he says, "read it. If you want to know something, write it. If you want to MASTER something, Teach it!" (Bhajan).

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

Your true pilot cares nothing about anything on earth but the river, and his pride in his occupation surpasses the pride of kings.

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

Zivojinovic seems to be able to pull the big bullet out of the top drawer

I can conduct better than I count.

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.