Quotes About Expertise

Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often than anyone else ever has.

You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut.

Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist.

Analyzing dreams is much like walking on water. There are a limited number of people who do it well.

...it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

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

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

Writing is a craft not an art.

whatever you become be good at it

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.

If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.

I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.

Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.

I'm good at what I do.