Quotes About Expertise

The Doors were never that good as musicians.

Making duck calls is the hardest thing that we make, so there's skill involved, and they're all handmade.

The language is the hardest thing. My technical Russian is much better than my conversational Russian, and it has to be good enough to explain problems to them in their technical control center.

I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

I make my own chocolate, I grow my own beans, and now I have something about the history of chocolate. I feel I try to go as far as I can into this profession.

The most important thing is knowing what you are good at.

The most important thing you can do when starting a business is surround yourself with smart people who know a lot more than you do in certain realms.

I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

I've wrestled since I was 15 years old, and it's the one thing that I know I do very well.

I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, and that's the only thing I know. I don't know anything else.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.

Whether by theft or by artistry or by conquest, when it comes to time, Venetians are the world's greatest experts. They bested time like no one else.

It was the sea, and their evident mastery of shipbuilding and navigation

The best defense against partisanship is expertise.

If it can be done, then we'll do it. If it can't be done by us, then no one can do it." Self-Assess

In the same way, he proudly accepted full responsibility for rebuilding the German Air Farce and, although he was not an economic expert, for rebuilding the German economy. Of the Air Force he said, "I alone was responsible and am responsible, for I was Commander in Chief of the Air Force and Air Minister.

Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world.

Technology—nobody knows more about technology than me.

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.