Quotes About Expertise

Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.

What we look for are people that are technically competent. You need a background in a scientific field, whether it's as a scientist, an engineer, medical doctor, or, you know, a person that's in the military with some kind of technical background.

I wasn't the greatest technician when I played.

The most common things I would go out for would be, like, 'the Lab Technician' on a crime procedural, usually an expert in either a medical or a computer-oriented field.

I also know that I am not a great technician.

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own.

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

I never had a problem with technique.

You lose speed, that's normal, but the technique you never lose.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

Messi has the best technique in the world.

The biggest challenge to me is always technique.

A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't do the research and development. I didn't take it to the next level.

Technique wasn't my favorite thing to learn, and I doubt I would be great teaching it.

You can't compare my background to the Gracies', not only in technique, but in terms of business and marketing.

Anytime I get to get out there, to help somebody with a technique, a fundamental, I'm in my happy place.

If you break down actual techniques and knowledge of MMA, I am more knowledgeable than the head coaches of all the guys I'm fighting. Forget the guys I'm fighting. Obviously I know more than they do, nobody is going to question that. But I also know more than the guys who are teaching them about fighting. I could teach them.