Quotes About Specialization

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.

The wide receiver position is such a complex position.

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.

It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from charlatanry to ambition would be levied and tenure denied. I've seen this first-hand.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

What a waste of time it would be to insist that everyone develop each of the specialties we call upon to an equal level. We'd get bogged down in remedial training programs, trying to get the cornet players up to speed with the computer programmers, sacrificing the tends to be exceptional in so many individual situations in order to be average in all of them.

Surgeons know nothing but do everything. Internists know everything but do nothing. Pathologists know everything and do everything but too late.

The same specialization has taken place in Dicranum. By sidestepping competition, numerous species can coexist, each in a habitat that they don't have to share with a sibling species, the mosses' equivalent of "A Room of One's Own.

We're in different categories. She [Venus Williams] does sports, I do more of the fashion side.

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

Penguins don't waste their time trying to fly. They're unique. They know they were built for the water.

Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.

My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

Chose the niche that you enjoy, where you can excel and stand a chance of becoming and acknowledged leader.

The one sure way to success is to know everything you can about what you do.

Nothing tends to materialise man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labour.