Specialists Quotes - Page 9

• The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Past, Age, Sage

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• Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.

  Ivor Grattan-Guinness

  Historical, Details, Development

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• Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

  Pierre Hadot

  Art, Philosophy, Jargon

  "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 272), 2001.

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• One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was this no longer directed toward people who were to be educated with a view to become fully developed human beings, but to specialists, in other that they might learn how to train other specialists. This is the danger of "Scholasticism," that philosophical tendency which began to be sketched at the end of antiquity, developed in the Middle Ages, and whose presence is still recognizable in philosophy today.

  Pierre Hadot

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Views

  "Philosophy as a Way of Life". Book by Pierre Hadot, trans. Michael Chase, p. 270, 1995.

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• Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

  Michael Haneke

  Directors, Violence, Film

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• My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also for the discipline of it. He taught us how to shoot when we were young. He opened up karate schools in the worst parts of the city, on purpose, and then he would systematically clean out a three-block radius, all of the gang-bangers and drug dealers and everybody of nefarious character.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Block, Military, Father

  Interview with Joseph Hooper, www.elle.com. April 15, 2009.

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• So if somebody has chronic pain, we want to manage the pain, but we still want to treat the insomnia separately. So what we'll tend to do in our sleep lab is we'll do a thorough evaluation and we usually have myself, who is a Psychologist and a Sleep Behavioral Sleep Specialist, I treat the patients first.

  Shelby Harris

  Pain, Sleep, Insomnia

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• There are some that are - REM Behavior Disorder, we'll see some court documented cases. And they really need to have a thorough evaluation with a sleep specialist.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Needs, Evaluation

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You don't have to be the specialist on everything. You can try to inform yourself.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Trying

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• Of course, I, like the sponsoring government, would like to have as many people as possible visit Yokohama Triennale. This is because I believe that art should not be monopolized by professionals and specialists.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Art, Believe, Government

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.

  Jacques Barzun

  Integrity, Passion, Artist

  Jacques Barzun's preface to the 3rd edition of his book "Berlioz and the Romantic Century", 1969.

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• It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Moving

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• Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

  Frank Herbert

  Experts, Useless, Chaos

  Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

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• I saw a specialist who asked me 'Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?'. I said I think I saw that one with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Thinking, Saws, Phrases

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• Spare me the people who ask, 'Have you thought about ... losing weight, hiring an assistant, buying a Pentium, working with an etiquette specialist, coloring your hair?

  Susan RoAne

  Hair, People, Advice

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• Horror writers are specialists in the worst case scenario

  Richard Laymon

  Worst Case Scenario, Horror, Cases

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• If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.

  Hannah Storm

  Children, Wine, Doe

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• Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Keys, Research, Enthusiasm

  "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Doors, Views, Medicine

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• Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

  Jean Cocteau

  Over You, Despair, Finesse

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• The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?

  Rex Murphy

  Horse, Thinking, Waiting

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• You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Leadership, Wisdom, Work

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• I'm not a specialist in the science but I have followed it fairly closely and it seems to me that there is among the experts a clear consensus that potential climate change is something to worry about.

  Martin Rees

  Worry, Climate, Experts

  "Lord Martin Rees, eminent British scientist". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 28, 2010.

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• I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.

  Willy Bogner, Jr.

  Trying

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• One of my motivations to become a blood specialist was to study malaria in red blood cells. But in science, you discover something and you want to go this way, but your work goes that way.

  Peter Agre

  Motivation, Cells, Blood

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