Quotes About Specialization

If you're trying to get into the sports business, you really have to find a niche.

Everyone has a niche of dunks that they are experts at.

I was doing specialisation in advertising. I had no interest in acting. One of my friends, who was doing specialisation in films, made a short film casting me. Luckily, I got a break, and my acting career took off.

The intelligent minority are a "specialized class" who are responsible for setting policy and for "the formation of a sound public opinion

When specialization and exchange become generalized, there is a need for something called a universal equivalent.

We are living in an age of specialists but sometimes a specialist is a man who no longer sees the forest of truth for the trees of fact.

There is no danger in scientists specializing. The actual danger is that the specialists are generalizing.

We can't all do everything.

There's little point, though, in being too scattered to master something, or in spending much time on activities in which you can't excel.

who distinguished themselves as scientists, artisans, merchants, scholars

Less glamorous but equally necessary fields of specialization included carpenters, caulkers, and coopers.

I am a trained classical pianist. I can play all the masters. I can improvise on the piano, as well as play a variety of styles of music. Yet, I cannot build a piano. Is it necessary for me to know how to build a piano to be a good musician?

A prerequisite for a successful scientific career is an enthusiastic willingness to pore through the minutiae of subjects that 99.9 percent of Earth's population find screamingly dull.

If the basic fallacies, or the absence of base, in every specialization of thought can be seen by the units of its opposition, why then we see that all supposed foundations in our whole existence are myths, and that all discussion and supposed progress are the conflicts of phantoms and the overthrow of old delusions by new delusions. Nevertheless

Physics is the basic science. One can easily argue that all other sciences are specialized aspects of physics.

The best bikes aren't at the extreme ends of the functionality spectrum, so specialized that they're a bike-length away from dysfunctionality. The best ones are boring jacks-of-many-trades, and you stretch them to their limits with skill and experience.

Stay within the confines of your chosen topic. If you start to stray away from your topic and find an urge to showcase everything that you know, resist that urge. Remember that you are writing a book, not the book.

Here we see the word brain occurring for the first time in human speech, as far as it is known to us; and in discussing injuries affecting the brain, we note the surgeon's effort to delimit his terms as he selects for specialization a series of common and current words to designate three degrees of injury to the skull indicated in modern surgery by the terms fracture, compound fracture, and compound comminuted fracture, all of which the ancient commentator carefully explains.

I have a friend who is very successful in business, and his motto is, 'Don't do what you can do. Do what only you can do.' First of all, you have to know what your specific, unique gift is and then you do that... every actor does that but every once in a while an actor plays a part that only they can play.

Every sport, every profession, every group united by a single passion draws on a lexicon that is uniquely theirs, and theirs for a reason.

A goalkeeping unit is different from outfield; the psychology is different.

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.