Quotes About Specialization

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

An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.

There is actually some truth in the saying 'There's riches in niches'.

The Purpose gives the array of these actions coherence, not just at any given moment, but over time, and thus helps ensure that the firm does achieve a genuine specialization, a genuine difference from its competitors. In this way it makes superior profits possible. Purpose

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

One writer excels at a plan or a title page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.

psychoanalysis is more than a technique; it is an art, and highly specialized training in craftsmanship will

When you try to learn everything about something, you end up learning something about everything.

In the scientific world, the syndrome known as 'great man's disease' happens when a famous researcher in one field develops strong opinions about another field that he or she does not understand, such as a chemist who decides that he is an expert in medicine or a physicist who decides that he is an expert in cognitive science. They have trouble accepting that they must go back to school before they can make pronouncements in a new field.

Only do what only you can do.