Quotes About Expertise

You cannot have qualifications without experience; and you cannot have experience without personal interest and bias. That may not be an ideal arrangement; but it is the way the world is built and we must make the best of it.

Walpole has no intellect. A mere surgeon. A wonderful operator but, after all, what is operating? . . . . Manual labour.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

In my opinion, legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge of another kind. People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice. No man can judge what is good evidence on any particular subject, unless he knows that subject well. A lawyer is no better than an old woman at a post-mortem examination.

In my opinion, said Lydgate, legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge of another kind.

We're at the top echelon of motorsports, and we've got guys who have never won Late Model races running on the racetrack. It's pathetic. They don't know where to go.

I think I've already won the most important titles in Brazilian jujitsu and grappling.

Players are saying, 'I don't have to have a coach who has only played a little bit. Instead, I can have somebody who won something'.

You know, there are only about 10 people in the United States that have ever argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court, this man has won 25 cases before the Supreme Court. He's an overwhelming choice.

People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them.

It's wonderful to work on footage by someone who understands how to get it to cut right, which a lot of directors don't.

I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.

I'm a little old-school in that I think there's some value in the classics and the steps of achieving a certain profession. If we start slanging the word 'chef' on anybody and everybody who cooks, it takes away a lot.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

I still have my talent, knowledge and I have my work ethic.

If you're a technology investor, and you decide that you're also going to be a healthcare investor or a green-tech investor, that doesn't usually work out that well. There are reasons why people make their careers studying these things and becoming experts.

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

I think I'm a good actor, but to replicate tens of thousands of man hours in surgery is really hard.

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

The FBI has built up substantial expertise to address cyber threats, both in the homeland and overseas. Here at home, the FBI serves as the executive agent for the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF), which joins together 19 intelligence, law enforcement, and military agencies to coordinate cyber threat investigations.

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

When you find your niche, you just gotta continue to be confident and thrive in it.