Quotes About Specialization

My father's a dermatologic surgeon; my brother's a surgeon.

I have one brother who is a surgeon, there's me, and my other brother builds boats.

Economics is not brain surgery.

I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.

I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.

Despite their economic advantages, specialization and globalization in some ways reduce resilience — a quality that is essential to our adapting to the end of growth.

Its story line is that modern societies identify the brightest youths with ever increasing efficiency and then guide them into fairly narrow educational and occupational channels.

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

You can take any line of business and skill and the ones who do it the best are the ones who get the most money for it.

Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.

You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.