Experts Quotes - Page 23

• About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.

  Hippocrates

  Medicine, People, Drunk

  Hippocrates (1988). “Hippocrates”, Loeb Classical Library

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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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• Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.

  Sebastian Coe

  Thinking, Decision, Parent

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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 NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace. It simply observed a decline in the number of 22-year-olds and projected that this demographic trend would result in a huge shortfall. This could be termed the supply-side theory of labor market analysis. But making labor market projections without considering the demand side of the equation doesn't pass the laugh test with experts in the field.

  Howard Wolpe

  Years, Numbers, Laughing

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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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• And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Way, Motto, Folks

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1000, Simon and Schuster

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• First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

  Elliott Abrams

  Two, People, First Impression

  "The Power of the First Impression". www.wsj.com. May 09, 2009.

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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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• I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

  Helen Garner

  Dream, Writing, Self

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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 have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing this novel I became very familiar with the various movements in American Modern Art from 1900 onwards.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Art, Writing, Movement

  "Book Talk - Nicholas Sparks on telling stories through text, film". Interview with Billy Cheung, www.reuters.com. October 10, 2013.

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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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