Quotes About Expertise

When your entire life is focused around one goal and one goal only, and you have no other pursuits, it enables you to achieve enormous mastery.

A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

My expertise lies in what I've devoted my life to. I wouldn't pretend to be a great gift to any other animal. My interest has always been in the horses.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

A distinguished researcher once commented to me that a real scientist is someone who can think about a subject while talking to his or her spouse about something else.

It is almost impossible to substitute intelligence for experience.

To prove mastery requires significant scholarly knowledge; otherwise, it mirrors the tomfoolery.

As Neil Gaiman said, "Google can bring you back a hundred thousand answers; a librarian can bring you back the right one.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely,

Note that an informed source need not fit our general stereotype of an "authority"—and a person who fits our stereotype of an authority may not even be an informed source.

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesnt understand.

En ningún otro campo profesional se puede llegar más lejos careciendo de cualquier cualificación, conocimiento o habilidad verificable. Se puede dirigir un hospital y hasta ser ministro de sanidad sin tener la menor noción de medicina, y ocupar un puesto de alto rango en la política internacional sin hablar ningún idioma extranjero.

A person who says his expertise lies in selling only a particular product, but for other products someone else of their team has the capability to makes sales; is actually playing office politics in spite of the management considering him consistently the star performer in the organisation.

A true expert in a TV reality show does not merely restrict oneself to giving points or pointing out the artiste's mistakes but also proves own points by self correcting that performer's errors.

Every organization wants good working-person but only at its own terms & conditions in respect of position, designation and remuneration rather than what the candidate deserves based on his experience, expertise and educational qualification.

Ordinary people or idlers who know the least about the reality behind the media news talk/discuss of it the most amongst themselves and absurdly share their views or do reviews on it as self-proclaimed experts.

So-called experts or panelists in the prime time TV show verbally fight tooth and nail over a subject to not to bring any solution, but to create often commotion to divert the attention of the ordinary population from the main problem of the nation.

The job of journalist, panelist and so-called experts seems to speak together via debate & discussion so much lies seamlessly & shamelessly to convert false into truth; to divert the minds of people from main issues to superfluous or irrelevant news; to insert words of anchors & sponsors into the mouth of people to make & show it as public views and inert the minds of the population of the nation.

A cobbler should not judge above his last.

Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed man who is an oculist.

Ask the experienced rather than the learned.