best quotations about
Expertise |
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Quotations
 | Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 12 likes |
 | An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault. — William Castle, 1914-1977, American filmaker 8 likes |
 | Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 7 likes |
 | An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 6 likes |
 | You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love. — Julia Child, 1912-2004, American chef, author & TV personality. 5 likes |
 | I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 5 likes |
 | In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 4 likes |
 | A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. — Robert Heinlein, 1907-1988, American sci-fi writer 4 likes |
 | Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other. — Philip Sidney, 1554-1586, English poet & courtier 3 likes |
 | I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 3 likes |
 | When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 3 likes |
 | We realize that we have become specialists when the things we talk about with pleasure bore others. — Gilbert Cesbron, 1913-1979, French writer 3 likes |
 | I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. — Bruce Lee, 1940-1973, Chinese-American actor 1 likes |
 | It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. — Muhammad Ali, 1942-2016, American boxer 1 likes |
 | The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 1 likes |
 | Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. — Sydney Smith, 1771-1845, British writer & cleric 1 likes |
 | For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life. — Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American self-help writer 1 likes |
 | I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow. — Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, American President [1913-1921] 1 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | Shoemaker, not beyond the show. Sutor, ne supra crepidam. — Apelles, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek painter (for those who try to pass judgment beyond their expertise) 15 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing. — Anonymous 6 likes |
 | What I need is a lawyer who specializes in the law of the jungle. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-2025, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 1 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Let each man exercise the art he knows. Έρδοι τις ήν έκαστος ειδείη τέχνην. 4 likes |
 | The fox knows a lot and the hedgehog knows one good thing. Πολλ’ οίδ’ αλώπηξ, εχίνος δε εν, μέγα. — Archilochus, 725-650 BC, Ancient Greek lyric poet 4 likes |
Proverbs
 | Set a thief to catch a thief. 4 likes |
