Quotes About Specialization

Track and road cycling are very different things. It is easy to look at them both as cycling but going from the road to the track is like asking Andy Murray to play squash: yes, it's a racket sport like tennis, but it's not the same.

If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.

I've been blessed that my dad taught me at a young age about versatility and how to not be specialized in one area, so it's made my transition from each step in my career very comfortable because I had the fundamentals and the foundation to do anything the coach needed me to do.

Kids specializing at sports at such a young age could be part of the reason why you're seeing so many injuries.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

There is so much information on diagnostics and treatments - one person cannot possibly know everything. A good doctor is one who isn't afraid to admit that he or she doesn't know everything.

Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and farming

Do one thing but do it well

You seem to know a lot about this particular genre we're in," he says.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

I had learned that a dexterous, opposable thumb stood among the hallmarks of human success. We had maintained, even exaggerated, this important flexibility of our primate forebears, while most mammals had sacrificed it in specializing their digits. Carnivores run, stab, and scratch. My cat may manipulate me psychologically, but he'll never type or play the piano.

Science is a broad church full of narrow minds, trained to know ever more about even less.

Science is a broad church full of narrow minds, trained to know ever more about ever less.

Generally speaking, people useless at everything else become academics

Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility. Our

century ago, the typical Iowa farm raised more than a dozen different plant and animal species: cattle, chickens, corn, hogs, apples, hay, oats, potatoes, cherries, wheat, plums, grapes, and pears. Now it raises only two: corn and soybeans.

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does. Time was when a car company made cars, a mining company dug mines. It's not like that anymore.

There is a saying among women scientists who attend highly specialized engineering universities, where the girl-to-guy ratio is decidedly in their favor: "The odds are good, but the goods are odd.")

Asking economists for investment advice is like asking a physicist to fix a broken toilet. Not their field, though sort of related.

11. Upgrade your key skills: The more knowledgeable and skilled you become at your key tasks, the faster you start them and the sooner you get them done. Determine exactly what it is that you are very good at doing, or could be very good at, and throw your whole heart into doing those specific things very, very well.

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.

I think we're just one of those bands that we know what we do best.

You have so many modern goalkeepers, and they're all different. There's not just one type of modern goalkeeper.