Top 100 The Expert Quotes
#1. I even hung mobiles, banners, and wind chimes from the ceiling in any wide open space." In an aside she commented, "Moving objects especially mess with their ability to pull themselves together." "Is that so? Now you're the expert on ghost prevention?" "I guess so. It worked.
Rhonda Hughes
#2. There are many experts on how things have been done up to now. If you think something could use a little improvement, you are the expert.
Robert Breault
#3. I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
Agatha Christie
#4. In the mind of the beginner, all things are possible, But in the mind of the expert, only a few. Zen Master Suzuki-Roshi
Barbara L. Jordan
#5. When no one knows who is the expert, and the expert for whatever reason is unwilling to speak up, expertise is lost.
Jeanne M. Brett
#6. Yes, Bob, I rather thought entity-relationship diagrams were your sort of thing. You're the expert in Visio, aren't you? Drawing up UML diagrams of fictional vampire brood hierarchies should keep you out of trouble for a while.
Charles Stross
#7. Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.
Sun Tzu
#8. The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger.
Louis Kronenberger
#9. 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
#10. I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks.
All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.
Abraham Maslow
#11. some possible problems for those who use the expert approach. One potential concern from the client's perspective is that the expert may not fully appreciate the nature of the client's
Linda K. Stroh
#12. Well, MacKenzie, YOU'RE the expert on toilets! It's only 8:00 a.m. and your BRAIN is completely CONSTIPATED while your MOUTH has a severe case of DIARRHEA! Please, go FLUSH!
Rachel Renee Russell
#13. Know your own child's behaviors and look deeper to find their meaning. Be the expert for your child. Discover the wonderful.
Liz Becker
#14. One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking about, even he doesn't know because it's so poetic.
Thomas Mars
#15. Exposure plus 95 cents might buy you a decent cup of coffee. The key is to 'position' yourself in your market as the expert, the resource, the only person your prospect would ever even THINK of doing business with, or referring to others.
Bob Burg
#16. The expert at anything was once a beginner.
Helen Hayes
#17. Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#18. The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.
Sun Tzu
#19. I'm not really much of a video game player; my son would be the expert in that department. The only game I would really play is golf, the Tiger Woods video game.
Richard Roundtree
#20. The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.
Philip Kitcher
#22. I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
Barbara Corcoran
#23. How many of us give up along the way because we'll never be the expert that so-and-so is?
Suzanne Falter-Barns
#24. On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.
Donal Henahan
#25. In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
#26. All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If a declared interest is potentially significant, then the expert is either excluded from the meeting or given a restricted role.
Margaret Chan
#28. The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.
Sol Stein
#30. Bottom line: There is probably no better way to close a sale or get hired for a job than to pull a book out of your briefcase and let the person across the table know you are the expert in the industry.
Jim F. Kukral
#31. One, who has passed through one pain, gets the strength to pass through many pains. Then he becomes the expert in passing through the pains.
Dada Bhagwan
#32. Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.
Sun Tzu
#33. When only one person is the expert on a particular people, do we learn more about the people or the anthropologist when we read the analysis?
Lily King
#34. successfully train new spotters: by trial-and-error feedback. A novice would hazard a guess and the expert would say yes or no. Eventually the novices became, like
David Eagleman
#35. And the ultimate thing is, I may not be the expert that some people are on foreign policy, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Mike Huckabee
#36. If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.
Cynthia Lewis
#37. The expert is someone who carries malpractice insurance.
Laurie Anderson
#38. Monopathy, or over-specialisation, eventually retreats into defending what one has learnt rather than making new connections. The initial spurt of learning gives out, and the expert is left, like an animal, merely defending his territory.
Robert Twigger
#39. There is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of educating them.
Mary Parker Follett
#40. No one will care more about your life than you do and no one is better qualified to chart its course than you are. You are the expert.
Brian Fies
#41. When the locus of evaluation is seen as residing in the expert, it would appear that the long-range social implications are in the direction of the social control of the many by the few.
Carl R. Rogers
#42. Good docents often begin by asking the viewer, "What do you see in this work?" The idea that the expert should be allowed to constrain the interpretation of others rightly offends our sensibilities about museums and art. It ought to offend us just as much when applied to Scripture.
Dale B. Martin
#43. Listen to your hearts, parents! You are the expert when it comes to knowing your child. I love the Scripture that says we are to let the peace of God rule in our hearts ... In other words, peace in your heart is to be like an umpire calling the shots. When in doubt
DON'T!
Sherrie Eldridge
#44. Shout out to Daryl Hall. He is the best. One of my true musical heroes. He comes from the Philly area so when it comes to true soul, the guy obviously is the expert.
Mayer Hawthorne
#45. I'm not the expert on how the Iraqi people think, because I live in America, where it's nice and safe and secure.
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2004
George W. Bush
#46. The experience of the expert is an advantage to them only for as long as it enables them to learn faster than the novice
Agona Apell
#47. Wonderful craftsmanship, Simon decided with the expert eye of one who had played enough computer games to know art when he saw it.
Sorin Suciu
#48. I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.
Clive Barker
#49. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few
Shunryu Suzuki
#50. The difference between an expert and a novice fighter is that the expert makes use of each opportunity
Bruce Lee
#51. My ideal of conversation that includes wide representation of perspectives, informed by the consensus view of current experts, pursued with an attempt to find a position with which all can live, brings the expert and the public dimensions together.
Philip Kitcher
#52. Trust the expert. -Experto credite
Virgil
#53. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
#54. Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.
John Lautner
#56. The Truth is in the prolouge.
Death to the romantic fool.,
the expert in solitary confinement.
Pablo Neruda
#57. Online, everyone - the artist and the curator, the master and the apprentice, the expert and the amateur - has the ability to contribute something.
Austin Kleon
#58. One cannot be interested in crime without being interested in psychology. It is not the mere act of killing, it is what lies behind it that appeals to the expert.
Agatha Christie
#59. It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
Henry A. Kissinger
#60. Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#61. The power of the expert is very great and the way in which an expert sees you may easily become the way in which you see yourself.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#62. Stop being self-conscious when you write.
You are the expert about the world you are creating,
no one else. So be bold and write on.
Nirav Sanchaniya
#63. The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
Mahatma Gandhi
#64. The novice trader is at a disadvantage because the intuitions that he is going to have about the market are going to be the ones that are typical of beginners. The expert is someone who sees beyond those typical responses and has an understanding of the deeper workings of the market.
Charles Faulkner
#65. The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.
Herbert Simon
#66. Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is so inconspicuous. The expert has, perhaps, no more ideas than the inexperienced, but appreciates more what he has and uses it better.
George Polya
#67. Remember this: You are the expert of your body.
Sarah Hackley
#68. Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.
Sun Tzu
#69. Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.
Edward Hall
#70. From the moment she'd first seen him in the Fontaine ballroom, she'd been lost. The passionate kiss a week later had destroyed her. Even now she could feel the heat of his expert lips against hers, and the remembrance of his taste made her mouth water.
Sylvia Day
#71. Once A. K. Coomaraswamy, the great twentieth-century Indian expert on traditional metaphysics and art, said that in modern society the artist is a special kind of person, while in traditional society every person is a special kind of artist.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#72. Mavis' bear sailed through the air in Cassie's room, falling onto the bed. 'What's he in aid of?' 'He's reconnaissance expert. He wouldn't hear of me enterin' potential hostile ground without testin' for fire. Has his sacrifice been in vain?
Christine M. Knight
#73. I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.
Barry Bonds
#74. He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through
and proud of it.
Patricia Cori
#75. I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat.
Nigella Lawson
#76. If the date is a complete disaster, I'll text you. I'll say 'Blue Squirrel, this is Hot Fox. Mission to be aborted with extreme prejudice.' Then you call me and you tell me that there is a terrible emergency that requires my expert warlock assistance.
Cassandra Clare
#77. I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'
Bernie Mac
#78. I examine the data, as an expert, and pronounce a specialist's opinion. I claim no credit in such cases. My name figures in no newspaper. The work itself, the pleasure of finding a filed for my peculiar powers, is my highest reward.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#79. 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
#80. As president, I wouldn't be making the day-to-day combat decisions. The job of the commander-in-chief is to lay the objective out and then you rely upon the generals and admirals and commanders to give you their expert advice on the tools needed to carry out that objective.
Ted Cruz
#81. By 'aha' she means 'one minute' Stephano claims he knows nothing about snakes, the next he claims he is an expert! By 'aha' she means 'Stephano has been lying to us'. By 'aha' she means 'we've finally exposed his dishonesty to you'! By 'aha' she means 'aha'!
Lemony Snicket
#82. A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading.
Karen Karbo
#83. The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.
Lawrence Booth
#84. You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.
Libba Bray
#85. Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know.
Chip Heath
#86. 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
#87. It is common to misconceive how checklists function in complex lines of work. They are not comprehensive how-to guides, whether for building a skyscraper or getting a plane out of trouble. They are quick and simple tools aimed to buttress the skills of expert professionals. And
Atul Gawande
#88. if college graduates can no longer be counted on to lead reasoned debate and discussion in American life, and to know the difference between knowledge and feeling, then we're indeed in the kind of deep trouble no expert can fix.
Thomas M. Nichols
#89. I'm not an expert in the sociological realities of all the pastors in the world, but I would say that there are some very, very positive things about the state of integrity in church leaders.
Henry Cloud
#90. Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust.
David Irving
#91. Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do. -Jo
Nicholas Sparks
#92. There's no expert on this planet who says that the government telling people what to do actually does any good with this issue, this is going to require an effort on everyone's part.
Michelle Obama
#93. What makes you such an expert on alien life?" Scarlet asked after a few minutes.
"I've been all over the galaxy. Seen a lot of stuff," Han said. "Plus, I have common sense.
James S.A. Corey
#94. I came away with the impression that this guy was either the most forward-thinking finance expert on the planet, or a crack smoker who simply placed his hands on the keyboard, attached electric stimuli to his genitalia, flipped the switch, and started typing.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#95. But now the problem we face is ineptitude, or maybe it's "eptitude" - making sure we apply the knowledge we have consistently and correctly. Just making the right treatment choice among the many options for a heart attack patient can be difficult, even for expert clinicians.
Atul Gawande
#96. You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your limitations and follow a course certain to work reasonably well. Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences.
Warren Buffett
#97. If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
Peter Ustinov
#98. You better get used to it. You're going to be on the ground a lot today, but cheer up ... tomorrow you'll be an expert.
Judy Blume
#99. It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things.
Janette Rallison
#100. I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
Damon Lindelof
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