Quotes About Specialization

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

Our urge to trade has profoundly affected the trajectory of the human species. Simply by allowing nations to concentrate on producing those things that their geographic, climatic, and intellectual endowments best enable them to do, and to exchange those goods for what is best produced elsewhere, trade has directly propelled our global prosperity.

Faced with the sentence therapistsneedspecialtreatment we need to know if this is a text about sex crimes or about speech pathology before we can correctly read it aloud.

Now that sense of intellectual urgency has dissipated. Tolerance, relativism, the postmodern refusal to commit, the cultural triumph of uncertainty – all these rule out a repeat of the pyrotechnics in H3. Perhaps, too, there is currently so much specialization, and so many movements and fissures within higher education, that the important questions have been lost.

Why is it that I always get a whole person when all I want is a pair of hands? -Henry Ford

God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Good things happen when you narrow your focus.

People enjoy doing what they do best.

I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.

I'm a golfer not a history major.

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.

Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

Be so good at what you do that no one else in the world can do what you do.

The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much. You're going to fail through lack of specialization.1 Charlie Munger

hiperespecialización1 impide ver la globalidad (al fragmentarla en parcelas) y también la esencia (al disolverla).

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.