Quotes About Specialization

I joined an Internet community of Victorian scholars, which meant that if I posted a question about 1875's lavender harvest, more than a thousand experts would ponder it.

Economists have understood since the Victorian era that the main benefits of trade come from comparative advantage: the idea that people can specialize in what they're good at and then benefit from exchange. The principle is no more mysterious than specialization in the labor market.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

When we talk about the process, then, we are talking, increasingly, not about "the democratic process", or the general mechanism affording the citizens of a state a voice in its affairs, but the reverse: a mechanism seen as so specialized that access to it is correctly limited to its own professionals

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

You can't be better than everyone at everything. You can always become the best at something specific. Zero in on the target and own it!

If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.

He who tries little of everything accomplishes much of nothing.

The key to success is not seeing how much you can do, but doing one thing you love most with excellence.

I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.

A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don't ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts. Where we use them and how determines whether we actually complete something.

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

cuando más, mejor y más fácil­mente se produce es cuando cada persona realiza un solo trabajo de acuerdo con sus aptitudes, en el momento oportuno y sin ocuparse de nada más que de él.

There are people who wring their hands and call it an abyss, but do nothing to fill it; there are also those who work to widen it, as if the scientist and literary man belong to two different human subspecies, reciprocally incomprehensible, fated to ignore each other and not apt to engage in cross-fertilization.

I'm mainly a philatelist, though I know a lot about Tiffany

In this brave new world, there is no place for a lone paladin venturing forth on tasks of knightly honor. Both Galahad and Shane would be toast. In times as complex as these, any caped crusader must work sans cape, but with backup that amounts to scores of specialists.

I have only ever done athletics. I was only average at school and I have never done any other sport.

I am an economist, not an astrologer.

I'm an engineer by training.

I am enjoying playing as a full back, and I would like to continue in this position.

Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise -- even in their own field.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Smith believed that economic growth stems from specialization. The best way to maximize profit and the efficiency of production was for people to specialize in a few select skills, rather than produce whole products themselves.