"Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know."

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Source : "Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck". Book by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, 2006.

Chip Heath

#Mean Quotes #Experts Quotes #Nuance Quotes

“Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.”

Source : Andy Weir (2016). “The Martian: Young Readers Edition”, p.190, Random House
“Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.”
“I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“God knows what happens to your time once you have begun to get old. You are busy all the time, you do important things, you work, and yet when you sum it all up the result is nothing.”
“If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something.”
“I'm not Zappa, you know. I'm just Terry.”
“What I really need is for people to know that I don't just do this, I do this and this and this and this. We all have creativity in us and we all are multi-dimensional and we are all interested in a lot of things and that women are fabulous. We can handle a lot of things.”

Source : Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 06, 2007.
“No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.”

Source : Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright

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