Quotes About Expertise

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it.

you became an expert on silence?' she joked. 'I'm not an expert on anything. but I love language in all forms - sounds and words, facial expressions, hand gestures, body posture and its rhythms, what people mean but don't necessarily say with words. I've always loved words, the power of them.' 'so what's your favorite word?' 'hm, that's an excellent question.' he fell quiet, stroking his beard in thought.

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Gain familiarity with the shell, and you'll find your productivity soaring.

No matter how great your talent, talent has to work with knowledge to do anything well.

No knack of drawing heads can compete with sound knowledge.

Very few institutions thrive when they are left solely to "professionals," people who have made it their life's work to master a given domain of culture.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Diversity workers could be described as institutional plumbers: they develop an expertise in how things get stuck, as well as where they get stuck.

In the information age, because we all have access to information, everyone considers themselves an expert.

When one of a culture's guiding credos is that all men are created equal, any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.

Successwise, you're better off being good at two complementary skills than being excellent at one.

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

A man with experience is never at the mercy of a man with an opinion.

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

lack of firm knowledge rarely equates with complete ignorance.

Whenever someone uses the word 'glitch,' which means a fault of some kind in a system, you should immediately be suspicious, because it means that they don't know what it is. A technician who uses the term 'glitch' is like a doctor who tells you you're suffering from a 'thingy,' except the doctor won't tell you to go home and try turning yourself on and off again.

Becoming sufficiently familiar with something is a substitute for understanding it.

university," Joseph Scaliger (1540–1609). His expertise in the classics and biblical textual criticism made him one of the premier scholars of Europe. Other scholars included Jacob Arminius (1550–1609), Francis Gomarus (1563–1641), Simon Episcopius (1583–1643), and Johannes Coccejus (1603

One of the unfortunate facts about being interested in nearly everything is that the depth of your knowledge is bound to remain inversely proportional to its range; the more you know en masse, the less you tend to know about a particular, narrow topic.

When I started my studies years ago, I thought of myself as an academic with an interest in the martial arts. Then I met Yamashita. Now I've come to the awareness that I'm a martial artist with some advanced academic credentials. "We know there are people more qualified, Burke,

Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.

I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.