Quotes About Specialization

Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.

I am a graduate in business management with specialisation in finance, and I love accounts!

To exaggerate a bit: academic theology today is composed of specialists in an unrespected discipline who write for fellow specialists about topics that interest hardly anyone else.

Because it all ties together. When I grew up, I realized how lucky I'd been. I got serious. I studied. I went to college, then medical school. I specialized in replantation.

Lack of concentration of effort. The "jack-of-all-trades" seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

Before you can be sure of your ability to transmute DESIRE into its monetary equivalent, you will require SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE of the service, merchandise, or profession which you intend to offer in return for fortune. Perhaps you may need much more specialized knowledge than you have the ability or the inclination to acquire, and if this should be true, you may bridge your weakness through the aid of your Master Mind group.

The order of the day is specialization!

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE is among the most plentiful, and the cheapest forms of service which may be had!

Rara vez en la historia de este país se ha encontrado al frente de una institución cultural a alguien cualificado, o al menos no incompetente sin remedio. Se aplican estrictos controles y hay numeroso personal especializado para impedir que eso suceda. La meritocracia y el clima mediterráneo son incompatibles por necesidad

If I dabble in too many things and don't focus on channelizing my energy into one thing, I might mess it up.

Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can't make a microscope that can do it all.

I've played midfield my whole life.

We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.

Learn something about everything, And everything about something.

We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all. Henery

The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

you would be wise to use your expertise to help you make your investments. If you're well versed in antiques, why not leverage your knowledge? You

Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields...

Decades later, universities in Sri Lanka likewise had "a backlog of unemployed graduates" who had specialized in the humanities and the social sciences.

You had to be fundamentally stupid , I sometimes thought, to become the sort of academic specialist that hiring committees liked. You had to be thick somehow. You had to block out all the other things in the world to focus on one narrow, particular thing.

At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist...This concentrated focus has brought some benefits...It may also be a modern malady. Specialization, when taken too far and allowed to define who and what we are, becomes limiting. It robs us of our wholeness and our self-sufficiency. It misses the big picture and confines us to a narrow zoom. And it leaves us at the mercy of experts.

The golden age of the "hog man," the producer specializing solely in pork production from his or her family-farm base, had come to an end. And it was just as well; the single-commodity production agriculture that had evolved was neither good risk management nor consistent with the nature of family farms.

Knowledge within the project was as compartmentalised as an insect's body.

As in typical factories, high schools and higher education in particular are organized around the division of labor. In high schools, the day is usually segmented into regular chunks of time. When the bell rings, everyone changes task (and often rooms) and starts doing something else instead. Teachers specialize in particular subjects and move through the day from class to class in separate segments.