Quotes about Expertise

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.

Remember: the amateur works until he can get it right. The professional works until he cannot go wrong.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

In proportion as labor is divided, arts are perfected.

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.

Just about everything you learned in school about life is wrong, but the wrongest thing might very well be this: Being well rounded is the secret to success.

You really can't try to do everything, especially if you intend to be the best in the world.

He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?' 'No, I have not.' 'Well, well, such is fame!

It is all in the way of professional experience. - Sherlock Holmes