Experts Quotes - Page 26

• Do your homework or hire wise experts to help you. Never jump into a business you have no idea about.

  John Templeton

  Wise, Ideas, Helping

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• I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Technology, Focus, Half

  "Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's best shot" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2009.

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• I am an expert witness because I say I am.

  Don Henley

  Egotism, Witness

  Song: The Garden of Allah

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• Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

  George Meany

  Financial, Economics, Skeptical

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• High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.

  Anthony Giddens

  Risk, Climate, Characteristics

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.127, John Wiley & Sons

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• Focus on identifying your target audience, communicating an authentic message that they want and need and project yourself as an "expert" within your niche.

  Kim Garst

  Target Audience, Focus, Messages

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• As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?

  Richard Dooling

  Machines, Use, Credit

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• And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

  John Frankenheimer

  Writing, Thinking, Editors

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• With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.

  Lena Headey

  Real, Important, Fandoms

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• I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Mean, Knowing, Littles

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• I was an expert horseman.

  Harry Carey, Jr.

  Horsemen

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• Sure, you're an intelligent and highly capable individual, and you are learning a lot on the fly as you build your company. But you also need to come to terms with the fact that there are things you have chosen not to be an expert in.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Intelligent, Needs, Facts

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• Everybody was kung-fu fighting, those kids were fast as lightning. In fact, it was a little bit frightening, make sure you have expert timing.

  Carl Douglas

  Revenge, Kids, Fighting

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• Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Writing, Discovery, Quality

  "Siddhartha Mukherjee: 'A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2011.

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• One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.

  Amy Ryan

  Jobs, Smart, Moving

  "Amy Ryan Interview Green Zone". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. March 10, 2010.

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• I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Spiritual, Emotional, Attachment

  "Q&A with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf". Religion News Service Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I get really frustrated during a crisis when I go through all the cable channels and find - very often with the exception of CNN - that I'm not watching news at all. You think, 'Well, God... there are talk shows, talk shows, talk shows and everyone is an expert!

  Howard Stringer

  Thinking, Cnn, Frustrated

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• How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.

  Nicholas Stern

  Voice, Faces, Climate

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• All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.

  Ron Suskind

  America, Terrorism, Term

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• I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.

  Anson Mount

  Horse, Riding, Grew Up

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• XL is dedicated to understanding shifting business dynamics and helping our clients thrive in increasingly complex and changing environments. 'The Future of the Company' platform will allow us to offer insights and commentary on these essential topics to a global and diverse audience and feature insights from XL experts.

  Mike McGavick

  Understanding, Essentials, Dynamics

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• As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.

  John Hodgman

  Wine, Magazines, Veterinarian

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.

  Ellen Ullman

  Lying, Ignorance, Sea

  Ellen Ullman (2012). “Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents”, p.110, Macmillan

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• Who are these bloggers? They're not trained editors at Vogue magazine. There are bloggers writing recipes that aren't tested that aren't necessarily very good, or are copies of what really good editors have created and done. Bloggers create a kind of a popularity but they are not the experts. We have to understand that.

  Martha Stewart

  Writing, Vogue Magazine, Editors

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• As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.

  Jeroen Dijsselbloem

  Political, Ministry, Approval

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