Experts famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
-- A. B. Yehoshua -
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
-- Abdallah II -
I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
-- Adele Faber -
I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
-- Agatha Christie -
Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.
-- Ajahn Sumedho -
In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
-- Albert Camus -
We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.
-- Albert Einstein -
An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.
-- Alec Issigonis -
Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert.
-- Allan Pease -
We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
-- Alvin Toffler -
If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender
-- Anne Boleyn -
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 -
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 -
An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.
-- Arthur Bloch -
Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.
-- Arthur Keith -
Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows.
-- Arthur Lismer -
Some things tend not to work so well for science - things that rely on substantial written contributions by key experts are a case in point - but even there I tend to keep an open mind, because it may just be a case of finding the right formula.
-- Aubrey de Grey -
Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
-- Austin Farrer -
I consider myself an expert on love, sex and health. Without health you can have very little of the other two.
-- Barbara Cartland -
I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
-- Ben Stiller -
Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic,
-- Benjamin Graham -
I told John Kerry and General Allen, the Americans’ expert, ‘We live here, I live here, I know what we need to ensure the security of Israel’s people.’
-- Benjamin Netanyahu -
Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.
-- Benjamin Spock -
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
-- Bernard Malamud -
There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.
-- Bernard Rudofsky -
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
-- Bertrand Russell -
You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.
-- Bill Viola -
Life isn't about trying to be an expert in everything. It's about being an expert in one thing and offering it to the world.
-- Bo Sanchez -
For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
-- Bob Barr -
When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is going to happen
-- Bob Farrell -
Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.
-- Brian Redman -
Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.
-- Brian Tracy -
Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.
-- Bruce Lee -
A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts,
-- Burton Malkiel -
As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.
-- Carl Rogers -
Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
-- Carl Sagan -
An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.
-- Carl Sandburg -
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
-- Charles Duhigg -
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
-- Charles Kettering -
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.
-- Chip Heath -
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
-- Colin Powell -
I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
-- Damon Lindelof -
The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
I may not look like much, but I'm an expert at pretending to be a ninja.
-- Darynda Jones -
I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.
-- David Antin -
If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.
-- David Ben-Gurion -
If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what mistake am I making?' before assuming 100% of the experts are wrong.
-- David Brin -
My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision but I know he's right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I'm a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk.
-- David Carradine -
It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.
-- David Douglass -
Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust.
-- David Irving -
I once drew a picture of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. But I put it away after a Feng Shui expert told me about the bad vibes
-- David James -
Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
-- David McCullough -
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 -
I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.
-- David Thewlis -
Here’s exclusive Channel 5 video of a local man having his brain eaten by a winged gremlin. Local gremlin experts warn that—
-- David Wong -
I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It’s certainly the most miserable state to be in but it’s also tremendously gratifying, really—rage feels justified. And it’s an excellent substitute for action. Why would you want to sacrifice rage to go about the long, difficult, dreary business of making something more tolerable?
-- Deborah Eisenberg -
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
-- Denis Waitley -
You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
-- Denis Waitley -
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.
-- Diane Setterfield -
I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing
-- Donald A. Norman -
One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
-- Donald Sutherland -
Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living.
-- Doris Janzen Longacre -
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 -
If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.
-- Earl Nightingale -
I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
-- Edward Norton -
The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.
-- Edward Said -
Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.
-- Edward T. Hall -
I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.
-- Elizabeth Berkley -
I ride horses once in a while, but Im no expert. I hold on for dear life.
-- Emily Robison -
Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.
-- Eric Braeden -
Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.
-- Eric Hoffer -
The first humans to come to Canada were the Indians. There is some mystery as to where the Indians came from. Some experts say that they came from the same place as the Eskimo. This doesn't help much because nobody knows where the Eskimo came from either. (Except the Eskimo, and they aren't talking.)
-- Eric Nicol -
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
-- Eric S. Raymond -
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
-- Evan Esar -
An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.
-- Evan Esar -
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 -
Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.
-- Frank Gehry -
Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.
-- Frank Herbert -
Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information; and, till they have acquired all available information, cannot do anything but accept on authority the opinions of those better qualified.
-- Frank P. Ramsey -
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
-- Franz Grillparzer -
It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.
-- Freeman Dyson -
People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.
-- George Carey -
If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?
-- George Carlin -
Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.
-- George Meany -
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
-- Grace Hopper -
An organization must always remember that its objective is not getting people to listen to speeches by experts, but getting them to speak for themselves.
-- Guy Debord -
Thanks to the central bank, most ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists ‘explaining,’ like alchemists, how stones (paper) can be turned into bread (wealth).
-- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
