Quotes About Being An Expert

#1. To function effectively, the system scientist must know a considerable amount about the natural world AND about mathematics, without being an expert in either field. This is clearly a prescription for career disaster in today's world of ultra-high specialization.

John L. Casti

#2. Forget about being an expert or a professional, and wear your amateurism (your heart, your love) on your sleeve. Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you.

Austin Kleon

#3. I never thought I'd be an expert at sword fighting, I never thought I'd be an expert in protein powders - I'm close to being an expert in both. It's great!

Liam McIntyre

#4. I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#5. Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.

Brian Redman

#6. When you are learning how to do something, you do not have to worry about whether or not you are good at it. But when you have done something, have learned how to do it, you are not safe any more. Being an expert opens you up to judgement.

Helen Macdonald

#7. Life isn't about trying to be an expert in everything. It's about being an expert in one thing and offering it to the world.

Bo Sanchez

#8. Even though my entire writing persona is prefaced on me not being an expert, I kind of am an expert. I know a lot.

Jonathan Gold

#9. A good writer can fake being an expert in anything - even men's underwear.

Greg Dybec

#10. Being an expert isn't telling other people what you know. It's understanding what questions to ask, and flexibly applying your knowledge to the specific situation at hand. Being an expert means providing sensible, highly contextual direction.

Jeff Atwood

#11. Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.

Yoweri Museveni

#12. Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine.

Sebastian Coe

#13. First and foremost, there is a difference between being perceived as an expert and being one. In the context of business, the former is what sells product and the latter, relative to your "minimal customer base," is what creates good products and prevents returns.

Timothy Ferriss

#14. I ain't looking to comply," John said, "I violate people's rights every day, reckon I'm an expert what mine are. I'll be around."

--John Bassler on being asked to leave town in the upcoming book Chokoloskee.

Charles Sams

#15. Someone has said that Satan knows nothing of true pleasure and satisfaction, that he is an expert only in amusements. David had learned the difference, and we would do well to imitate him. True pleasure comes from knowing God, being known by God, and being at rest in His presence.

David Jeremiah

#16. Every kind of perfection is purchased at a high price on earth, where everything is perhaps purchased too dear; one is an expert in one's department at the price of being also a victim of one's department.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. found out later that he lived alone, surrounded by books, both his own and other people's, and that as well as being a hired hunter of books he was an expert on Napoleon's battles. He could set out on a board, from memory, the exact positions of troops on the eve of Waterloo. A

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#18. Being a "promising beginner" is fun, but being an actual expert is infinitely more gratifying.

Angela Duckworth

#19. We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.

Thomas S. Monson

#20. As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

Tom Stoppard

#21. One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.

Amy Ryan

#22. Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.

Eric Braeden

#23. An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves.

Olivia

#24. I'm a bit uncomfortable, truth be told, with being seen as an expert, because there is always so much more to learn. I see myself as a perpetual student of the goddess.

Patricia Monaghan

#25. I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.

Hal Elrod

#26. An expert was once a beginner. Success does not lie in the results but in efforts. Being the best is not that all important. Doing it right is all what matters.

Osunsakin Adewale

#27. Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.

Cullen Hightower

#28. I was learning that just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

Dick Gregory

#29. No-one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put into his speech. The expert worries about what he should take out. An artisitic performance is concentrated, has a central focus.

Edgar Dale

#30. I am far more interested in being a beginner than in trying to become an expert. Life is difficult and complicated for everyone - but it's very, very short.

Alastair Humphreys