Quotes About Specialization

Some athletes can master two sports, but most are only good at one.

I won't write about a subject unless I've mastered it.

I don't believe in doing everything and being mediocre at all of them. I believe in being good at one thing.

I must be rubbish as I can only play one sport.

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

My ability to help my clients was limited by our narrow focus. This was partly my fault for defining myself as a specialist, but I eventually came to see that this problem of reductionism is endemic to our culture.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

You see, some of us just find our niches somehow.

No company in its right mind tries to sell to everyone.

Since 1992, a number of colleges (including some highly specialized colleges) have been awarded

Archilochus: "The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

warrior-poet Archilochus: "The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique.

Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing over resources.

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a skilled intelligence professional, everything looks like a vital source for collection.

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

Once the world sees you as that one thing, and the better you are at that thing, the more you can only be that thing.

Sometimes expanding your game isn't better. Sometimes shrinking your game is a little bit better and really get to the things you do well.

Bars can't be everything to everyone. They must be everything to someone.

I consider myself a bassist first.

People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

No hay hombre que, fuera de su especialidad, no sea crédulo;

All abilities are evolved, which doesn't mean that they all have common roots.

I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.