Quotes About Expertise

It's harder to be the best of class in several fields than in just one

?le ci to idzie, Tzara. Nie umiesz. ?eby kogo? dobrze zniewa?y?, nie wystarczy przemo?ne pragnienie, entuzjazm ani zapa?. Konieczny jest warsztat.

Un chirurgo può permettersi di essere cinico solo dopo dieci anni di pratica.

When you try to exercise authority within a department that is outside your core competencies, you will hinder everything and everyone under your watch. If you fail to distinguish between authority and competence, you will exert your influence in ways that damage projects and people. To put it bluntly, there are things you are responsible for that you should keep your nose out of.

Every leader has authority over arenas in which he has little or no competence. When we exert our authority in an area where we lack competence, we can derail projects and demotivate those who have the skills we lack.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.

Knowledge determines to a great extent what we will pay attention to, perceive, learn, remember, and forget (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2000; Sawyer, 2006). For example, compared to fourth-graders with little knowledge of soccer, fourth-graders who were soccer experts learned and remembered far more new soccer terms, even though the abilities of the two groups to learn and remember nonsoccer terms were the same.

Take the online help of experts and find some more hands for drafting the documents.

Toast was one of the few things he could cook well.

If you scroll through all the movies I've worked on, you can understand how I was a specialist in westerns, love stories, political movies, action thrillers, horror movies, and so on. So in other words, I'm no specialist, because I've done everything. I'm a specialist in music.

Look at Julie Etchingham and Katie Derham, none of us are spring chickens frankly, I don't think people want to watch someone who's wet behind the ears, you have to look like you understand what you are reading about.

I always delegate. If someone is very good at something, whatever it is, he will be in charge.

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

I know more about wheat and olive trees than I do about politics.

The economy is my wheel house.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Let me do it. You tell me when you want it and where you want it to land, and I'll do it backwards and tell you when to take off.

As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.

Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I would know less about the business at hand than the people I was supposed to be advising.

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

You never want to be the one who everyone is going to bust jokes on. The only way to prevent that is to be good at something.

We must instil our future leaders with the expertise, knowledge and skills to prevent climate breakdown and restore nature to health.

People think just because I'm from the Middle East, I'm an expert on the Middle East. So, like, I got a friend, like, any time the gas prices go up, he'll always ask my opinion about it.