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Quotes About Expertise

Let such teach others who themselves excel
~ Alexander Pope
To shoot is human, to make your own bullets is divine. Let's be honest, we were all beginners at one point or another.
~ Alexander Pope
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
~ Alexander Pope
One science only will one genius fit
~ Alexander Pope
I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.
~ Alexei Sayle
Just because you watch 'Grey's Anatomy' doesn't mean you can do the operation.
~ Charles Barkley
I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know.
~ Harry Shearer
The summer after college, I got a job as a chef at Conscience Point Inn in Southampton. I spent the summer on the water and cemented my expertise with seafood. I've always gravitated toward places that do seafood.
~ Andrew Zimmern
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
~ Tom Stoppard
We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.
~ Filippo Brunelleschi
Wayne, Jon, and the SeventySix Capital team are best in class and committed to building successful companies. Together, by leveraging the full weight of our knowledge, expertise and relationships, we can make a huge impact at home in Philadelphia and around the world.
~ Ryan Howard
I think it's counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don't. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.
~ Mario Andretti
I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.
~ Wendy Carlos
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
~ Gerald F. Lieberman
I never had a backup plan. I've only been good at one thing. I admire people who are jacks-of-all-trades. That's not me.
~ Nahnatchka Khan
Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?
~ Alan Stern
At its core, HP has the best technologists on the planet Earth.
~ Mark V. Hurd
Women need to make sure they know what they're talking about. You can't just plant yourself in front of a camera and be pretty because that's just not good enough. It's just not a respectable way about building one's career - in sports or anywhere on TV.
~ Michelle Beadle
We aren't prescribing anything. We're not claiming to be the experts. We aren't advocating for or against any program. We are going to create a platform that says very explicitly what it is that teachers experience in their classrooms.
~ Charles Best
God of War 2,' for me, was great because we were experts at the platform. You know, it was at the end of the PS2's lifecycle and we knew everything about it.
~ Cory Barlog
People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.
~ Willie Geist
I just play basketball. That's me: all I know is basketball.
~ Jamal Murray
Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.
~ Tom Sizemore
I know what I do, I know I can play football, and I know I can talk about it.
~ Alex Scott