Experts Quotes - Page 9

• Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Ambition, Mind

  "Chapter 8: Lines: Untitled", www.theguardian.com. November 14, 1985.

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• An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Beginners, Persons

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• Experience is truly the only thing that makes experts so expert.

  Suzanne Falter-Barns

  Experience

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• Some day we'll awake, have a reformation of the heart, teach our kids honor and kill a few sex psychologists, put boys in high schools with men teachers (not sissies), close all the girls' finishing schools, shoot all the effeciency experts and become a nation of God's people once more.

  Harry S. Truman

  Girl, Teacher, Sex

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• Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.

  Angelina Jolie

  School, Mean, Law

  "Acting and Politics Are Sometimes a Very Bad Combination". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2007.

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• You don`t have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

  George Packer

  Ice Water, Blood, President

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• The bible saw that can get a lot of people killed, so let's try and steer people away from that. I am not an expert on the bible. I am just saying.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Trying, Saws

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail.

  Simon Sinek

  Opportunity, Students, Failing

  Source: www.meetadvisors.com

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• The experts or the cynics say, "Oh, those were the good old days, that's when drivers were really drivers. They didn't have all these aids." You know what? What we had, we did the best with and when we got more we provided what was needed.

  Mario Andretti

  Aids, Needed, Drivers

  "The Mario Andretti Indy 500 Interview: Part II". Interview with Steven Capwell, www.littlepocketguide.com.

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• The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large.

  Milton Friedman

  Impact, Discovery, Community

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• Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. To write a character, find out what they know best, and THEN you'll know how they'll describe a "hot day." Or a "pretty girl."

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Writing, Character

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• Now I'm not an expert at mathematics, but I calculated it would take at least three of me to take on one third of one of them, even if they were attacking me with just their arse.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Three

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• President [Ronald] Reagan never has tried to become an expert on military matters. He never has endeavored to learn the most important details in that field, which lead to a situation in which his aides played a much greater roles than aides would have played under President Ford or let us say in the whole Nixon-Ford-Kissinger era.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Military, President, Important

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• The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Politician, Duty, Expertise

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• I'm not an expert in it, but it seems to me that you have to let the market forces go their course.

  George Deukmejian

  Force, Courses, Seems

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• I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me.

  John Hodgman

  Pain, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• It was inevitable that in the proliferation of media and media channels and the natural debasing of authority that comes when you make an expert of someone who knows a few things and can be on television and you put the word "expert" underneath them, that is to say me, then eventually the very concept of expertise itself would become meaningless.

  John Hodgman

  Media, Television, Natural

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• The expert at anything was once a beginner.

  Helen Hayes

  Motivational, Teacher, Beginners

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• On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Garden, Roots

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• Those who are experts in the fields of surveillance, privacy, and technology say that there need to be two tracks: a policy track and a technology track. The technology track is encryption. It works and if you want privacy, then you should use it.

  Laura Poitras

  Technology, Two, Track

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise above the statistics and become a nation of entrepreneurs and leaders? The answer, as challenging as it is, is for entrepreneurs to show us the way, and to keep at it until more of us start to heed.

  Oliver DeMille

  Entrepreneur, Leader, Challenges

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• I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

  Neil Kinnock

  Advice, Adults, World

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• Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.

  William James

  Anxiety, Saint, Finals

  William James (2017). “Habit”, p.22, Read Books Ltd

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• How can you make informed decisions ... ? The key seems to be to gather experts who are knowledgeable and passionate about the subject matter, and have them cooperatively discuss a series of questions designed to explore the limits of technical feasibility.
  They must strive to reach the best decision rather than to persuade each other.

  Peter Norvig

  Keys, Decision, Passionate

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• In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.

  Orson Welles

  Country, Fake, Special

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