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• I wish we could understand the word expert as expressing an attitude of mind which we can all acquire rather than the collecting of information by a special caste. ... Many of us are calling for experts because, acutely conscious of the mess we are in, we want someone to pull us out.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Attitude, Mind, Special

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• Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible.

  Henry Ford

  Thinking, Numbers, Mind

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.59, 谷月社

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• Avocados, it's a food that ain't worth injuring yourself for. If it's a hassle to get into, leave it to the experts.

  Karl Pilkington

  Funny, Avocados, Hassle

  "The Podfather Trilogy" Podcast ("Christmas", Episode 3), 2008.

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• Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices about their families, they tend to decide precisely what demographers, economists, and development experts recommend. They invest in the long-term human capital of their families.

  Melinda Gates

  Powerful, Long, Choices

  "Why Birth Control Is Still a Big Idea". foreignpolicy.com. November 26, 2012.

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• Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.

  William Hague

  Children, Dirty, Thinking

  "Hague's 'foreign land' speech". Speech at the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• 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 in his speech or article. The expert worries about what he should take out.

  Edgar Dale

  Long, Worry, Focus

  "Can you give the public what it wants?: The need for better communications in editing, writing, broadcasting, advertising, public relations [and] teaching".

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• Republicans can also point to an alternate path. They can draw upon genuine experts to explain what should be done.

  William Kristol

  Path, Done, Notable

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• As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some 'they' is manipulating 'us', using, among other dark arts, advertising.

  George Will

  Art, Dark, Thinking

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• The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

  Susan Sontag

  Taste, Cameras, Kind

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.93, Macmillan

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• Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or a few years later if production does not rise much-and will decline thereafter.

  Amory Lovins

  Years, Oil, Energy

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• No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

  Steven Levitt

  Time Management, May, Outcomes

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• There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

  Bernard Rudofsky

  Art, Architecture

  Bernard Rudofsky, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1964). “Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-pedigreed Architecture”, p.6, UNM Press

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• Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

  Margaret Millar

  Reading, Acceptance, People

  Margaret Millar (2015). “An Air That Kills”, p.163, Soho Press

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• Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina monks, nuns. For centuries they have been teaching celibacy; and the most amazing thing is, even in the twentieth century, not a single medical expert, physiologist, has stood up and said that celibacy is impossible, that in the very nature of things, it cannot happen.

  Rajneesh

  Buddhist, Teaching, Catholic

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• The Independent Expert is persuaded that recognition of peace as a human right will promote a democratic and equitable international order and that national and international democratization will reduce conflict, since peoples want peace. It is Governments that stumble into war.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Independent, Government

  "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.

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• Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.

  Earl Nightingale

  Pay The Price, Dawn, Want

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• John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable group of experts in their fields-including the environment, medicine, the physical sciences, religion, the family, and international relations-and contributed two stellar pieces as well. Together these essays dispel fashionable pessimism and show how the world can progress-and is progressing-toward a better future.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Medicine, Two, Together

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• I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive claims I should agree with their agenda because it will make me more money, I put my hand on my walletand check it after they leave, just to make sure nothing's missing.

  Janis Ian

  Hands, Law, Missing

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• All boxing experts told Helenius is the next world champion! Chisora beat him.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Boxing, Champion

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• No expert can predict the heavyweight division. Every punch can make the decision.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Decision, Heavyweights

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• My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Character, Emotions Feelings

  Interview with Marisel Mendoza, www.ventanalatina.co.uk. April 10, 2013.

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• Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who refer to plants by Latin name are considered more expert, if a little pedantic.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sex, Latin, Vocabulary

  Diane Ackerman (2002). “Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden”, G K Hall & Company

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• I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Democracy, Revolution

  "Russian President Putin on 'FOX News Sunday'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 18, 2005.

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• I think it's healthy when fitness experts encourage fitness rather than getting a certain body shape.

  Sophia Bush

  Thinking, Healthy, Body

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• All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.

  Aldous Huxley

  Personality, Political, Principles

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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