Specialized Knowledge Quotes

#1. Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

Jesse James Garrett

#2. Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.

George Steiner

#3. But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.

Robert Graves

#4. Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#5. An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.

Napoleon Hill

#6. Learning to be aware of what you unconsciously know may depend on a line of focused effort and specialized knowledge and even some measure of aptitude, but actually learning it may be effortless, automatic, and require very little of what we normally think of as intelligence.

Greg Carlson

#7. Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

Napoleon Hill

#8. Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Alexis Carrel

#9. A sharp difference should exist between general education and specialized knowledge. As particularly today the latter threatens more and more to sink into the service of pure Mammon, general education, at least in its more ideal attitude, must be retained as a counterweight.

Adolf Hitler

#10. In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge.

Theodor Adorno

#11. Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and farming

Sunday Adelaja

#12. specialized knowledge" - that is, something that sets a person apart from all others and helps to define his worth and can be the basis for his wealth. The key to specialized knowledge, however, is not merely having it, but sharing it.

Greg S. Reid

#13. Academics are not intellectuals; they are not curious, they build their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stay securely in them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#14. I esteem my colleagues as I do my own self, I esteem them for two things: because they are able to find perfect felicity in specialized knowledge and because they are not apt to commit physical murder.

Vladimir Nabokov

#15. General or specialized knowledge. An educated man

Napoleon Hill

#16. Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.

Albert Einstein

#17. In determing "the right people," the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience.

James C. Collins

#18. Critics for established venues are vetted by editors; they usually demonstrate a certain objectivity; and they come with known backgrounds and specialized knowledge.

Michael Dirda

#19. The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

Michael Crichton

#20. The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance.

Tom Robbins

#21. I kissed him once," she whispered.
"Well done. What did he do?"
"Um ... " Deryn sighed. "He woke up.

Scott Westerfeld

#22. In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

Alfie Kohn

#23. The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#24. Men can bear all things but good days ...

Amelia Barr

#25. Nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character.

Winston S. Churchill

#26. Until a person finds something to die for, he or she has nothing to live for.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#27. I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

Robin Wasserman

#28. My favorite muscle to train is TRICEPS! Always has been my stongest muscle group as well.

Scott Herman

#29. The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Walt Whitman

#30. What did people do before they could go online and find answers to secret problems? Oh right, they killed themselves

Davida Wills Hurwin

#31. People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

Carl Andre

#32. If you are fully aligned with your soul it will be your pleasure, your joy to always move toward cooperation, toward sharing, toward reverence for life. You will not be torn.

Gary Zukav

#33. Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

Virginia Woolf

#34. Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#35. We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#36. I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

Charles Kimbrough

#37. I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#38. There had been in his past, as in every man's, actions, recognized by him as bad, for which his conscience ought to have tormented him; but the memory of these evil actions was far from causing him so much suffering as those trivial but humiliating reminiscences.

Leo Tolstoy