Quotes about Expertise

People should judge me for what I've done in 25 years. I'm not a rookie in F1.

Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

Rebuilding has always been one of my specialities from the time I started with young players at Cagliari.

In other words, if you wanted good government, then expertise mattered. You needed public institutions stocked with people whose job it was to pay attention to important stuff so the rest of us citizens didn't have to.

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

The experts in our society who offer to help us have a kind of general-staff mentality from which massive, top-down solutions are issued to solve our problems. Then when the solutions don't work, we get mired in the nothing-can-be-done swamp. We are first incited into being grandiose and then intimidated into being infantile. But there is another way, the plain way of quiet Christian humility.

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

We master the technique of our jobs.

Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

I was trained as an economic theorist; my job at MIT was as an economic theorist. At some level that's still part of my identity.