Quotes About Expertise

Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.

Be so good at what you do that no one else in the world can do what you do.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

An expert knows the subject very well. A model teaches by showing instead of just telling.

He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football

When I'm hiring, I don't look for credentials, I look for knowledge.

?On top of the government-hierarchy you need an unpolluted group of scientists to give a nation the best direction.

Be good, or be good at it.

...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

The only skill that cannot be perfected is perfection itself.

Practice transforms a skill into an art

On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.

It is not the facilities of the cooking stove which make for good food, it is the expertise and care of the cook.

How long someone's been doing it is overrated. What matters is how well they've been doing it.

Lancaster takes us back to where we started, but with a brilliant twist. The test of intelligence is indeed the ability to hold two opposing thoughts in one's mind, appreciate both, and still function. But you don't have to be the be-all and end-all expert in your business at one side or the other. In fact, you can be the one who doesn't excel at either. You can be the one who appreciates both and creates the conditions for both sides to flourish.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

He knew enough of his subject to know that he did not know enough to write about it....

He is recognized as the world authority on big American game mammals, and is an ornithologist of some note. Stooping to pick a speck of brown fluff off the White House lawn, he will murmur, "Very early for a fox sparrow!"84

a genius of savoir faire

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

no puede explicarse cuán grande es la autoridad de un erudito de profesión, cuando quiere demostrar a los demás las cosas de las que ya están persuadidos.

Non si può spiegare quanto sia grande l'autorità d'un dotto di professione, allorché vuol dimostrare agli altri le cose di cui sono già persuasi.

Let such teach others who themselves excel,And censure freely who have written well.