Quotes About Expertise

A lot of professionals are crackpots.

How do you know all this?" "I'm a fucking librarian.

Can I ask you something?' Will says and I say 'Sure, ask me something.' 'How do you know all this?' 'I'm a fucking librarian

I need to develop a car and engineer a car in a position that feels comfortable for me, and I don't think anyone can do a better job than I can in that position. The problem for me is if I can't get the car there I do struggle more than some.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

What a doctor wants... is practice. He shall have me. He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary, commonplace patients, with only one or two diseases each.

Scientists are seldom familiar with the details of research beyond their own discipline.

I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

a real physician almost never seeks another doctor's help. For they all are painfully aware of just how little anybody understands about curing the sick.

un adevarat medic aproape niciodata nu cere ajutorul altui medic. Pentru ca sunt dureros de constienti de cat de putin stie cineva sa vindece bolnavii.

In the time of the fair the rate at which men and women killed one another rose sharply throughout the nation but especially in Chicago, where police found themselves without the manpower or expertise to manage the volume. In the first six months of 1892 the city experienced nearly eight hundred violent deaths. Four a day. Most were prosaic, arising from robbery, argument, or sexual jealousy. Men shot women, women shot men, and children shot one another by accident.

He cared little about whether they had expertise with airplanes. "They are all captains of industry, and industry is like theology," Beaverbrook said. "If you know the rudiments of one faith you can grasp the meaning of another.

However you make your living is where your talent lies

He knew everything when he started. The others can't ever learn what he was born with.

Qué va, the boy said. There are many good fisherman and some great ones. But there is only you.

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

There's a word to describe giving it your best shot every time - it's called professionalism.

People tend to think that scientists are experts in all things, when in fact we can be so specialized we know less than a layperson about many scientific topics—like bear behavior.

I could walk into a wooded area and pinpoint within a foot any body he'd left there. I noticed this because my area of expertise was modeling how different systems stake out and create their own ecosystems. I use the term system because sometimes it's a confluence of organisms working together—in their own interests—yet yielding a mutual benefit. The shape of a thing isn't always the thing.

People tend to think that scientists are experts in all things, when in fact we can be so specialized we know less

What's the problem? In a nutshell?" "I'm a medical specialist. We don't really do nutshells[.]

The implication was that either the people in the room needed to change their areas of knowledge and expertise or people themselves needed to be changed