Quotes About Expertise

Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.

It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.

Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

Los pedantes se irritan siempre de que conozcamos tan bien como ellos su mezquino oficio.

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it.

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A

She could not be silent even if the men of science, many of them smug experts in white lab coats who promised "better living through chemistry," dismissed her warnings as feminine hysteria.

Connoisseurs of paintings were curiously indifferent about color itself, and were seldom possessed by it. Rather, they possessed it. And they seemed to be easily seated. They were like the gourmets, who had to build castles of their food before they could eat it. They confused beauty and knowledge, passion and expertise.

Peer review" at scientific journals means that every paper submitted gets reviewed by (generally) anonymous referees with expertise in the field.

Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable, and satisfying. And I'll generally take a stand-up mercenary who takes pride in his professionalism over an artist any day.

Try arguing the virtues of Nello on chowhound.com, or a similar online meeting ground for knowledgeable food nerds, and prepare to get pilloried.

Attacks on me are, quite frankly, attacks on science.

As Warren Buffett says, "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Money Power Principle 1. Don't get in the game unless you know the rules!

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. —WARREN BUFFETT