Quotes About Expertise

I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.

Being senior enough in the field, having enough solidity, I don't feel afraid of being marginalized.

I think punditry serves no purpose.

Experience. I have that in abundance and that is what I can share.

Character actors have a long shelf life.

When you take shots downfield, you want to be good at them.

Show business is all I know, but I love it.

Mohanlal has nothing left to prove. He has won many awards.

I can respect somebody that can do something I know without a shadow of a doubt, even if you backed up $5 million in front of me, I could not do that.

I don't like doing things badly, that just feels like a waste of a day.

You have to know what you're doing, you have to be experienced. You can't just say, 'I'm an actress in 'Scott & Bailey,' I'm going to write an episode.'

I happen to know a bit about banking.

I'm not going to lie; listen, I'm nice at basketball.

I consider myself a bassist first.

I consider myself an authority on drinking beer.

It seems not to occur to you that I might have had other very smart patients. The difference between them and me is that I'm a psychologist and they are not. I don't have to be as smart as you to help you. I only have to be smart about one thing.

Sick of envying, sick of herself. She didn't understand antiques or architecture, she couldn't draw like Sylvia, she didn't read like Ted, she had few interests and no expertise. A capacity for love was the only true thing she'd ever had.

People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

No hay hombre que, fuera de su especialidad, no sea crédulo;

Mark sighed to himself as he walked home. The afternoon was unexpectedly warm, the sky deep blue and cloudless. You figure her out, he told himself. You're the expert. Mark Carney, girl expert. Everyone should ask me for advice. I know everything about girls, except how to get along with them, how to get along without them, and how to understand them. And I can't even worry about Marcy right now because I've got a date with Janine.

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

There is nothing more disastrous than a committee of extremely able men.

A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade.

A fool with a tool is still a fool.