Quotes About Specialization

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.

You've got to know your niche! And a niche begins small. We have to concentrate on our niche in a very tangible, practical, and real way!

We tend to assume that when people are experts at one thing, their expertise extends to other areas as well.

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

Our technological world demands experts and rewards them. Those who consistently deepen their knowledge and skills to become experts will position themselves favorably. But expertise comes at a cost. Reaching expert status requires a level of discipline and dedication that rises far above mere competence.

He was a man of great depth but of limited breadth, so that while he knew very little, he knew a great deal about it.

Sharp, incisive, clever thinking is steadily becoming a lost art, more and more the domain of specialists and gurus. The trend is troubling and raises the question, Is America losing its ability to think? If, for argument's sake, we define thinking as the use of knowledge and reasoning to solve problems and plan and produce favorable outcomes, the answer is, apparently, yes.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?

Everyone wishes to either become this or desire to be like that , everyone who runs the race will always remain a rat. No matter what you try and be , one day you will see, that you are a unique fruit from a unique tree. You are a special fruit , be specialized, wake up to your special talent , get MickeyMized.

A large majority of our respondents were inspired by a tension in their domain that became obvious when looked at from the perspective of another domain. Even though they do not think of themselves as interdisciplinary, their best work bridges realms of ideas. Their histories tend to cast doubt on the wisdom of overspecialization, where bright young people are trained to become exclusive experts in one field and shun breadth like the plague.

21–23: Nerd.

In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker.

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

las grandes empresas se ven obligadas, por las fuerzas del mercado y las acciones de otros rivales más pequeños, a ser empresas de nicho,

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.

Einstein was just a genius of theoretical physics. If you introduced him to biology or chemistry, he would look like a fish trying to climb a tree.

The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.

But asking a physicist to comment on smoking and cancer is like asking an Air Force captain to comment on the design of a submarine. He might know something about it; then again, he might not. In any case, he's not an expert.

Outside their domains of expertise, scientists may be no more well informed than ordinary people. Indeed, they may be less so as their intense training in one area can lead them to be undereducated in others.

An all-purpose expert is an oxymoron.

But except in rare circumstances, you can train until you're blue in the face and you'd never be as good as if you just focused on one thing at a time." What we're doing when we multitask "is learning to be skillful at a superficial level." The Roman philosopher Seneca May have put it best two thousand years ago: "To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Nothing makes clearer the limits of science than the scientist's opinions about any topic that is not strictly related to his profession.

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