Quotes About Specialization

If you were a software developer who knew a lot about cloud computing, you would instantly be familiar with software companies such as Salesforce.com. If you were working in food marketing, your would clearly be familiar with Nestle, Mondel?z International or Yum! Brands. The point here is that there would never be a need to screen thousands of companies in industries you don't know anything about and haven't even heard of. Animal

Extreme specialization has been the greatest disaster of the modern academic world. It has created narrow Mandarins, ignorant of the universal nature of reality, incapable of connecting concepts from different fields to bring everything together in one ultimate, unified subject. The AC is everything the academic world is not. It's about connecting everything. It demands that people be generalists, not the most narrow, blinkered specialists.

I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.

I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.

We've all got our own areas of expertise.

if you devote yourself to anything diligently for ten years, that will make you an expert. (That's the time it would take to earn two master's degrees and a doctorate.)

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise----as priests, prophets or philosophers are wise. Specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

We need either to get the primary care doctors out of psychiatry or to teach them how to do it and give them sufficient time to do it properly.

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.

I'm an economist, not a political scientist.

I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

The Russian economy is a one-trick pony. They're totally focused on natural gas and oil.

Demian Maia is a one-trick pony.

I play a lot of positions in high school, but in the end I'll probably be a pitcher.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

I have done my post graduation in Business Administration.

I prefer corner. I'm a natural at that position. Corner is my type - a bigger guy who can run.

I can only write about what I know, I'd be crap anywhere else.

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

The future consists of cross specialisation; that is how university systems abroad have evolved.