Quotes About Proficiency

Mercants aren't known to be assassins." "Could be because we're very, very good at it

Merely knowing a word, moreover, doesn't necessarily make you capable of using it.

But asking a physicist to comment on smoking and cancer is like asking an Air Force captain to comment on the design of a submarine. He might know something about it; then again, he might not. In any case, he's not an expert.

Outside their domains of expertise, scientists may be no more well informed than ordinary people. Indeed, they may be less so as their intense training in one area can lead them to be undereducated in others.

An all-purpose expert is an oxymoron.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously.

Confidence is that feeling that you can do something (or that you know something) so well you don't have to think about how to do it when you're doing it. That skill or knowledge is in you, it's part of you, and it will come out when needed if you let it.

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

In those days, I believed that proficiency in English and success in business were the direct result of high academic achievements.

The French and Spanish ships were bigger and better armed, but the British were better sailors.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Talent is putting skills into productive use.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.

Learn the lines and don't bump into the furniture.

A true expert, instead, was one who understood a subject well enough to make its most intricate concepts accessible to a novice. The

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.

Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. … The theory of special genius, according to which for instance, it is supposed that a musical genius should be a fool at other subjects, confuses genius with talent. … There are many kinds of talent, but only one kind of genius, and that is able to choose any kind of talent and master it.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going to be scared.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.