Quotes About Expertise

Talent is putting skills into productive use.

Sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, are experts in generalities. When confrontedy by the bull's horns of a concrete case, they all look like Anglo-Saxon bullfighters.

Nothing makes clearer the limits of science than the scientist's opinions about any topic that is not strictly related to his profession.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.

There is actually some truth in the saying 'There's riches in niches'.

There is something that the "Naturals" are doing that they don't know they are doing. And no matter how many times they tell you their so called "Secrets of Success", they can't tell you something they're not consciously aware of. It's like saying to a fish, "so tell me about water".

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I'm bored by writers who can write only when it's raining.

A corollary of this philosophy is that it is not particularly important for a teacher to understand science well. The teacher, after all, is but a coparticipant in the process of constructing "knowledge." (The deemphasis on teacher expertise is probably just as well. As physicist Alan Cromer has pointed out, the training of teachers in constructivist methodology is marvelously suited to creating confusion about the scientific points at issue.)28

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

Blaming crashes and recessions on random and unpredictable shocks beyond our control has led experts and policy makers to view subsequent crises through the wrong lens. There are random and unpredictable shocks in life, but that doesn't mean we can't face them honestly and prepare for a world in which we know they happen even if we don't know when.

First learning, then proving I'd learned. Knowing and using the knowledge aren't the same thing.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

A true expert, instead, was one who understood a subject well enough to make its most intricate concepts accessible to a novice. The

What do you plan to do that others cannot do better?

One writer excels at a plan or a title page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

Don't ask questions. 2. Learn from them as the experts on their disability. 3. Always agree with everything they say, never interrupting them.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.

kufu means, as I have already explained, being without any suki (opening or flaw in terms of swordsmanship) or yudan (carelessness) and to become the thing itself.