Quotes About Proficiency

It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it...

it is rare for a man who teaches to know his subject thoroughly; for if he studies it as he ought, he has in most cases no time left in which to teach it. [...]

Could a computer outperform an experienced specialist?

Training in most fields is longer and more intense than ever. People spend years of sixty-, seventy-, eighty-hour weeks building their base of knowledge and experience before going out into practice on their own—whether they are doctors or professors or lawyers or engineers. They have sought to perfect themselves. It is not clear how we could produce substantially more expertise than we already have. Yet our failures remain frequent. They persist despite remarkable individual ability. *

People spend years of sixty-, seventy-, eighty-hour weeks building their base of knowledge and experience before going out into practice on their own—whether they are doctors or professors or lawyers or engineers. They have sought to perfect themselves.

Surgeons are so absurdly ultraspecialized that when we joke about right ear surgeons and left ear surgeons, we have to check to be sure they don't exist

But now the problem we face is ineptitude, or maybe it's "eptitude"—making sure we apply the knowledge we have consistently and correctly.

Your competence gives you a secure sense of identity.

In surgery, as in anything else, skill and confidence are learned through experience

She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.

Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in his manner and consciousness, no thought of comparison. His attitude was not: "I can do it better than you," but simply: "I can do it." What he meant by doing was doing superlatively.

It has been said that a specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

It is dangerous that by sudden invasions men shall be drawn to the use of his weapons before he hath skill how to use it

The brightest boys did mathematics and physics. The less bright did biology.

Those who can, do; those who do and understand, teach.

It may look easy but making it look easy is all to do with skill.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one-track mind.

Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.

Anche per chi abbia già conseguito una compiuta conoscenza, la cosa più importante è proprio l'essere in grado di servirsi delle sue cognizioni con prontezza.

Jayfeather was already expertly separating

and they took pride in their professionalism and expertise.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

whatever you become be good at it