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• Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences.

  Julia Child

  Drinking, Food, Wine

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.16, Knopf

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• Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Eye, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.227, Xist Publishing

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• I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost always found that children are a great deal more reliable in telling us what actually goes on in public school than many of the adult experts who develop policies that shape their destinies.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, School, Destiny

  Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.12, Broadway Books

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• Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.

  Jasper Fforde

  Kindness, Evil, Serenity

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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• I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Needs, Answers, Helping

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.16, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Mother, Children

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• Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was... ...Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I sat between my mother and my father, watching strangers on TV carry in Shaker rockers and dusty paintings and ancient beer tankards and cranberry glass dishes; people and their hidden treasures, who had to be told by experts that they'd taken something incredibly precious for granted.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

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• The overall goal [of counseling] is to help family members become 'systems experts' who could know [their] family system so well that the family could readjust itself without the help of an expert.

  Murray Bowen

  Goal, Helping, Counseling

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• It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert, welcoming places. Physical books, which can only be seen and handled in physical bookshops, are lovely, tactile things. Destroy those bookshops, and the very commercial and cultural base to the book industry is destroyed. Once and for all. Like Humpty Dumpty, it can never be put together again.

  Tim Waterstone

  Book, Simple, Together Again

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• While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's greatest experts on anger, jealousy, and self-deprecatio n, as well as on joyfulness, clarity, and insight. Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.

  Pema Chodron

  Wise, Self, Knowing

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• None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job... Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.

  Henry Ford

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  "My Life and Work: Top Biography".

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• You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your limitations and follow a course certain to work reasonably well. Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences.

  Warren Buffett

  Simple, Swings, Order

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• We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Mistake, Novices, Firsts

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• The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing harshness. The more we do it, the stronger these qualities become. How sad it is that we become so expert at causing harm to ourselves and others. The trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go. We can learn to meet whatever arises with curiosity and not make it such a big deal.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Practice, Curiosity

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• The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

  Tom Robbins

  Practice, Lazy, Enemy

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• Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.

  Mem Fox

  Children, Heart, Eight

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• The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred.

  Federico Tesio

  Horse, Winning, Race

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• If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.

  Earl Nightingale

  Years, Growth, Hours

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• In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mean, Japan, Empty Mind

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• Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of American farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems.

  Wendell Berry

  Animal, Two, Water

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.54, Counterpoint

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• Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Hurt, People, Taxes

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• If you are a marketing professional who wants to reach your buyers directly, many experts will say that the media is the only way to tell your story, and that press releases only to reach journalists - not your buyers directly. They'll say that bloggers are geeks in pajamas who don't matter. They are wrong.

  David Meerman Scott

  Media, Marketing, Stories

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• Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity, and spirit. They not only have talent for their sport, they have an expanded capacity for life. The experts shine in the competitive arena; the masters shine everywhere.

  Dan Millman

  Sports, Art, Shining

  Dan Millman (2010). “Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life”, p.165, New World Library

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• Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

  Walter E. Williams

  School, Welfare Programs, People

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• Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

  Peter Diamandis

  Block, Thinking, Innovation

  "Why Billion-Dollar, 100-Year-Old Companies DIE" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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