Quotes About Specialization

The more you kill, the more you get better at it. And the better you get at killing, the less use you are for anything else.

The more you kill, the better you get at it. And the better you get at killing, the less use you are for anything else.

My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.

Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.

We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

successful people regularly focus on the core purpose of their profession or life. True experts continually deepen their mastery of the basics. Trumpeting

True experts continually deepen their mastery of the basics.

Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Michelangelo to paint your garage.

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.

I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist.

I've always been known as a pure scorer, and I've always said if I just sat outside and shot 3s and just really focused on that - coming off of screens and spot-up 3s - and shot six or seven 3s a game, I would probably be more known as one of the greatest shooters in NBA history.

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.

I know what we do really well - I just try and keep us focused on doing that.

I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.

As a footballer I know what I'm good at and I've now embraced it.

Most people have a concentration in particular areas; it might be politics, it might be science, it might be business, it might be sports. I care about all of those, and that's why I've chosen the formats I chose.

Languages build up to reflect specializations in a way of life. Each specialization may be recognized by its words, by its assumptions and sentence structures. Look for stoppages. Specializations represent places where life is being stopped, where the movement is dammed up and frozen.

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Specialists are not to be trusted," Leto said. "Specialists are masters of exclusion, experts in the narrow.

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.