Quotes About Specialization

I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

I have different shoes for different types of climbing, six or seven different shoes that I alternate.

Since 2008, I have been a Foreign Area Officer specializing in Eurasia. In this role, I have served in the United States' embassies in Kiev, Ukraine and Moscow, Russia.

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Each is great in his own place, but the duty of one is not the duty of the other.

I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.

I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

Most politicians are either generalists or specialists. It's very rare that a politician is both.

KIND had grown from a team of dedicated, overworked generalists to a large, professional organization with specialists who had either come in from outside or had been groomed internally to grow in a focused area about which they're passionate.

I don't need players who won't track back, and I'm certainly not keen on specialists.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.

I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.

My background is in psychology - that's what my bachelor's degree is from, and my specialization.