Quotes About Expertise

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

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

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

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.

You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.

Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.

Everybody is ignorant, Just on different subjects.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

People fail to realize the technical conditions of drama, and think that, in the case of so simple a matter as playwriting, everyone is as good a judge as his neighbor. With regard to music and painting, you will hear people modestly confess that they have no expert knowledge, though "they know what they like." With regard to drama, they are troubled with no such diffidence. They not only know what they like, but they know what you ought to like, and more especially what you ought to despise.

An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.

if she be ignorant of the nature of flour, yeast, malt, and hops, what is she good for?

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

Anyone who is good at something makes it look easy. That does not mean it is.

You have to follow your intuition. That is what expertise is: all the experience, the cases won and lost, the painful mistakes, all the technical details you learn by rote repetition, over time these things leave you with an instinctive sense of your craft. A "gut" for it.

That is what expertise is: all the experience, the cases won and lost, the painful mistakes, all the technical details you learn by rote repetition, over time these things leave you with an instinctive sense of your craft. A "gut" for it.

I never met an authority figure I didn't like.

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.

there can be only one type of person: universal explainers and constructors.

most important distinction in the investment world does not separate individuals and institutions; the most important distinction divides those investors with the ability to make high quality active management decisions from those investors without active management expertise. Few institutions and even fewer individuals exhibit the ability and commit the resources to produce risk-adjusted excess returns.

The trick to having a happy life is being good at something.