Experts Quotes - Page 2

An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.

Alec Issigonis

Design

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Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Robert M. Hutchins

Education, Teacher, Powerful

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Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

Hedy Lamarr

White, House, Citizenship

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Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

David McCullough

Book, Journey, Projects

Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2003.

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Who's to say who's an expert?

Paul Newman

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During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.

Conan O'Brien

Marriage, Running, Gay

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I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing

Donald A. Norman

People, Design, Knows

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The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

Sun Tzu

Leadership, Business, Art Of War

"The Art of War". Book by Sun Tzu, Chapter V · Forces, 2003.

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It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Dave Barry

Art, Spending, Personal Grooming

Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.22, Ballantine Books

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I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

Leslie Fiedler

People, Engagement, Bills

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Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Henry A. Kissinger

Country, Leader, Foreign Policy

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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Character, Criticism, Favorite Subject

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Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

Steve Lacy

Music, Wine, Want

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Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.

Roy Spencer

Understanding, Majority, Climate

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When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.

Joan Severance

Art, Winning, Reality

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

Bob Ehrlich

Children, Fall, Thinking

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Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

Leo Szilard

Done, Irritated, Effects

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It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

David Douglass

Use, Fields, Reputation

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Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!

Malcolm Arnold

Symphony, Special, Mahler

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It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.

Robert B. Laughlin

Real, Bells, Labs

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I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

Thomas Menino

Boston, Cities, Community

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I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.

Luc Montagnier

Idaho, Ethical, Clear

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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

Ferdinand Mount

Iraq, White, House

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Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.

Lennart Nilsson

News, Today, Technique

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An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.

Bum Phillips

Leadership, Sports, Home

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