Quotes About Expertise

In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.

Not all knowledge comes from college.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

Knowledge must become capability.

A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

By the work one knows the workmen.

By the work one knows the workman.

general public distrusts academic expertise as soon as it affects real-world topics

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

When no one knows who is the expert, and the expert for whatever reason is unwilling to speak up, expertise is lost.

We've all got our own areas of expertise.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.

Just because you have a thought, doesn't make you a thought leader!

Being an expert isn't telling other people what you know. It's understanding what questions to ask, and flexibly applying your knowledge to the specific situation at hand. Being an expert means providing sensible, highly contextual direction.

No one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.

Merit badges are these little patches you get for learning how to do all sorts of manly stuff.

I probably should've thought about talking to Uncle Gary a lot earlier. He's been married something like four times already, so he's an EXPERT on relationships.

Take it from me, an authority on expertise: You can't trust experts.

The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves. From time to time something happens to shake them out of that groove.