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Quotes About Expertise

You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
~ Alan Perlis
A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.
~ Richard B. Livingston
Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.
~ David Gelernter
It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
~ Nathanael Emmons
Devote yourself to learning something new about your field of mastery every day.
~ Robin Sharma
Too many people get caught up in the idea that they are experts in their field and forget to keep growing and learning.
~ Kit Williamson
One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.
~ Tim Ferriss
When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.
~ Gail Simmons
We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
~ Thomas Friedman
Whatever you do, do it well.
~ Walt Disney
Life isn't about trying to be an expert in everything. It's about being an expert in one thing and offering it to the world.
~ Bo Sanchez
This is what happens, perhaps, if you have been studying something so long that you can tell one sea anemone from another in an instant, could have picked out any denizen of those tidal pools from a lineup if it had committed a crime.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
The research on the importance of practice was made famous by Malcolm Gladwell (2008) when he argued that ten thousand hours of practice are necessary to become an expert in a field.
~ Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Their insularity made him envious—not just of the men but all three of them. They were working together, two men and a girl, with evident ease. Even after the diving suit was on and she no longer looked like a girl, he was resentful of their shared knowledge, their nomenclature and expertise.
~ Jennifer Egan
Some people are smart. Some people are good." He opened his eyes and put a hand on each of my shoulders. "And some people are both.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Jameson shrugged. "What can I say? I really am just that good.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
There's an art in every labour.
~ Ellis Peters
These inexperienced doctors rarely knew one end of a woman from the other.
~ Emma Donoghue
The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love
~ Erich Fromm
I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.
~ Amber Tamblyn
A professional wasnt a proffesional before he started learning the proffesion.
~ Amer Maybe
Monodynamic (adj.) Having only a single talent. The technical word to describe a one-trick pony. Moreish
~ Ammon Shea
NSA has been penetrating foreign communications systems for over half a century. It has the highest concentration of the best cyber expertise in government, employing more mathematicians than any organization in the United States.154 As former NSA Director Michael Hayden wrote, cyber weapons descend from an NSA bloodline.
~ Amy B. Zegart