Quotes About Expertise

Expertise is achieved only after working hard on hard problems.

Is there anything you can do?' 'Well, in college I was studying-' 'Don't give me your goddamned life story! I'm interested in your trade, skill, talent, profession, ability, whatever you want to call it. What, specifically, can you do?' 'Well,'Marvin said, 'I guess, when you put it that way, I can't do anything much.

Besides Tiberius, Nero, Otho and Vespasian all had their astrologer. Titus, Domitian and Hadrian were sufficiently expert themselves to draw up a horoscope, and Septimius Severus (who married Julia Domna after making enquiries about marriageable daughters of royal blood) dispensed justice in a hall of the palace where his own astral horoscope was painted on the ceiling (DC, 77, 11, 1).

and straightforward language. The researchers concluded that when the witness spoke simply the jurors could evaluate his argument on its merits. But when he was unintelligible, they had to resort to the mental shortcut of accepting his title and reputation in lieu of comprehensible facts. And so, another paradox: experts are sometimes most convincing when we don't understand what they're talking about.

What a waste of time it would be to insist that everyone develop each of the specialties we call upon to an equal level. We'd get bogged down in remedial training programs, trying to get the cornet players up to speed with the computer programmers, sacrificing the tends to be exceptional in so many individual situations in order to be average in all of them.

Surgeons know nothing but do everything. Internists know everything but do nothing. Pathologists know everything and do everything but too late.

The ship's knowledge extended to navigation, to the handling of weather and awareness of necessary maintenance.

experience and the advantage of being the one

Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.

Weddell/Canaba was still an ass at heart, Miles reflected. But he did know his molecular biology. After

Damned technocrats. Nothing but horse doctors with a more expensive set of toys.

Leo will be coming with us," Emma offered, trying to sound optimistic. "He's a downsider." "I'm not sure that's exactly his field of expertise," said Claire honestly, trying to picture Leo as a medtech. He didn't care for hydraulic systems, he'd said.

His expertise took in anything manufactured in the old gross way from inorganic materials. He was totally lost with modern bacterial electronics, where computers were grown, not made. His work was greatly valued by a few historians of science, and virtually unknown to everyone else

This rule is that people always think that if they are very expert at something, that thing must therefore be extremely important.

People always think that if they are expert at something, that thing must therefore be extremely important.

Twitch had been arrested for stealing a car. He claimed he could break into a car, disconnect the alarm, and hot-wire the engine, all in less than a minute.

Talent isn't genius.

He became so skillful that he built roads without an engineer.

I never came into contact with any class of men so smart and able as they are in their business.

When someone masters something, it becomes a part of that person. It becomes part of the individual's thought and creative process. It adds the quality of its essence to all subsequent thought and creativityof the individual.

but also for the sweater most expertly knitted from hand-spun wool

Never ask a question if you don't know the answer. — Rhett

Se aprende más de un erudito apasionado que de un montón de ganapanes de ardua brillantez.

I can tell you, she really knows her job. So do boa constrictors, said Audrey.