Quotes About Specialization

Some of the biggest and most popular movie stars in the world are limited or have constantly done what they do really well. Being versatile is not necessarily the greatest quality for an actor.

Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.

Here's the thing that I think really pushed me, was my versatility. Because when I came in to the movie business, all the stunt men were specialists. If you did horse work, that's all you did. If you did cars and motorcycles, you did that. But when I came in, I taught myself how to do everything.

Being only a chemist hampers me.

People who work in distribution will be distributors all their life.

The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.

Specific knowledge is needed in every work, if we want to have success

Your calling is your natural area of concentration

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple doesn't make blenders. There's a reason Haagen-Dazs doesn't sell meat. And there's a reason drug companies should focus on saving and improving lives - not jeopardizing them.

I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs.

I majored in English with a specialization in creative writing along with Asian American Studies.

Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they end up knowing more and more about less and less. It's a malaise that has now infected A-levels and GCSEs.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.

There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subject - in the Mastermind sense - and I wouldn't change it, or who I am.

I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else.

When you're a member of Congress, you can become an expert in a couple of subjects. For example, I've worked on federal procurement reform, the Armed Services Committee, manufacturing, and women's health care.

Getting trapped in narrow cul-de-sac specializations and "clubs" whose membership is open only to those who congratulate and fund each other is an occupational hazard in modern science

The trend today is toward specialization and further compartmentalization, which is a big mistake.

Athletes today start specializing in a chosen sport younger than ever before. Because of this young athletes do not acquire the broad base of fundamental movement skills and they are

Post–Industrial Revolution, especially post–information and tech revolutions, we learn to spend most of our time selling one small slice of our talents to pay for everything else we need.