Quotes About Expertise

Therefore, kufu alludes to the earnest way each artisan applies himself to the art of his own choice.

Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.

A clear understanding of how much I don't know about medicine is one of my greatest strengths

Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

I'm no good with business, me. I'm the last person to ask when it comes to contracts and dough and all that.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going to be scared.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

There's something really disturbing about finding out how little you really know about something you felt like you were an expert on.

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

Practice makes the master.

I hate nothing more than doing things badly.

As they say, a jeweler knows the uncut gem. And I am. And she was. And so.

You see?' said Baldini, equally both satisfied and disappointed; and he straightened up. 'You can't do it. Of course you can't. You're one of those people who know whether there is chervil or parsley in the soup at meal-time. That's fine, there's something to be said for that. But that doesn't make you a cook.

when pair work functions collaboratively and learners are in an expert–novice relationship, they can successfully engage in the co-construction of knowledge.

When experts insist that their societies are awash in misery, they are unknowingly illustrating one of the big findings in happiness research, which is that people underestimate how happy other people are—we tend to think of ourselves as lucky exceptions.

The ultimate purpose of the Word of God is not theological information but heart and life transformation. Biblical literacy and theological expertise are not, therefore, the end of the Word but a God-ordained means to an end, and the end is a radically transformed life because the worship at the center of that life has been reclaimed.

Two motives urge fans to obsession with their sports. One is the need-—through the appeal of vicarious success—-to identify with winners. The other is to sanction, through pedantry, dogmatism, record-keeping, wise secret knowledge, and pseudo-scholarship, a claim to expertise on the subject. Sports give every man his opportunity to perform as a learned bore and to watch innumerable commentators on TV do the same.

I definitely had a top-notch education.

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

In the scientific world, the syndrome known as 'great man's disease' happens when a famous researcher in one field develops strong opinions about another field that he or she does not understand, such as a chemist who decides that he is an expert in medicine or a physicist who decides that he is an expert in cognitive science. They have trouble accepting that they must go back to school before they can make pronouncements in a new field.

the question falls within the penumbra of the detective's expertise.

In his dark suit, white shirt, and rep tie, he looked—and sounded—utterly professional. There was little chance he would make a mistake on direct or get tripped up on cross by a pettifogger, such as my own wily self.