expertise quotes

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

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

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

I’m very good at what I do, and I don’t turn my hand to something unless I’m very good at it, frankly.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

The wisest have the most authority.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.