Quotes About Expertise

In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.

Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.

Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.

From the first day we opened Wynkoop, my brewpub in Denver, I knew I'd be ten times better running a restaurant than I was a geologist.

For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

I'm not good at very many things. The stuff I'm good at tends to be the stuff that people know me for.

It is all about the kind of experience you garner over the years, which tends to make a difference in the way you play at the top level.

Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

I don't know much about Mauresmo apart from the fact she played great tennis. Is she a good technician? I don't know those parameters.

Amateurism has its place in government, in journalism and also on the tennis court, but lack of expertise means politicians routinely promise far more than they achieve.

I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context.

I'm terrible with tech. But I'm good with jargon. I can sound like I know what I'm doing.

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

If you have John Terry, Frank Lampard on the pitch, they've seen everything in football. And it gives you a good feeling because they know what to do.

Because of the Internet, we're all such authorities on every subject and can chat about all sorts of things. But when push comes to shove, when our ideas are put to the test, that's when we find out who we really are.

Bill Nye, so that guy truly knows everything, and I tested him. I'd come in every day with some new question for him that I'd assuming he'd have no idea basically how to answer it - basically he knows everything.

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. It's not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.

It is the curse of the competent?not to be called upon.