Experts Quotes - Page 24

• Im an expert on surfing the channels, so Im always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.

  Rafael Vinoly

  Surfing, Watches, Able

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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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• I was very pleased when PRS presented me with my SE Angelus acoustic, a beautiful guitar of stunning quality. It was in response to the challenge of building a guitar that shared the integrity and attention to detail that the Alex Lifeson Private Stock Angelus possesses in a package more broadly accessible. The SE Alex Lifeson Thinline is that model. Carefully selected materials, expert craftsmanship and a smart approach to concept resulted in a guitar that is beautiful to look at and rewarding to play.

  Alex Lifeson

  Beautiful, Integrity, Smart

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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 unemployment rate is now at 9.2%, which is scary, because experts say 9.5 is the point at which people are desperate enough to consider Michele Bachmann.

  Bill Maher

  People, Scary, Unemployment

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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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• The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

  Herodotus

  Memorable, Fighting, Battle

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.479, OUP Oxford

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• When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden extinction of boatloads of species, you'll want to say an impact did it. If you're an igneous petrologist, volcanoes did it. If you're into spaceborne bioclouds, an interstellar virus did it. If you're a hypernova expert, gamma rays did it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Impact, Volcanoes, Rays

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.281, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Friendship, True Friend

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.746, Stanford University Press

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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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• There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief, they're apt to be dismissed as some form of denial. This is not a common problem. Usually intellectualism, not feeling reality, is blamed for disbelief. But, some angel experts suggest, there may be emotional as well as intellectual barriers to belief: unwillingness to believe in angels can reflect low self-esteem.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Self Esteem, Believe, Angel

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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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