120 Quotes About Expertise

  • Author Eddie Robson
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    Would it make you feel better if I pretended not to be making it up as I go along? [...] In that case, I know exactly what I'm doing, but please don't ask me about it in any great detail.

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  • Author Cassandra Clare
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    Where are we going?” Cordelia whispered, as they hurried along the corridors of the Institute. “Lucie. You cannot simply abduct me, you know.”“Nonsense,” said Lucie. “If I wished to abduct you, you can be sure that I would do it quite expertly, no doubt beneath the veil of silence and darkness.

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  • Author Dean B. McLaughlin
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    [Published pseudoscience] is a serious threat to education and, I believe, to the democratic principle itself…. No amount of lying will alter the truth,—but lying can alter the willingness of a people to accept the truth.

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  • Author Petra Hermans
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    To understand old structures, is an expertise below a level of normal reality, besides a great responsibility, to describe the very silence of changing a low, zero Point.

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  • Author Miklós Bánffy
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    Young Kamuthy now decided to take advantage of the sudden silence to return to his favourite theme. "In Angland," he said with even more self-importance than before, "no one expecths national figureth to be experth in their jobthe. On the contrary, they feel that too much expertithe destroythe all objectivity.

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  • Author Emily Nagoski
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    Novices who are thoroughly incompetent rate themselves as very confident in their ability to do a thing they’ve just learned to do. By contrast, genuine experts know how difficult their work is, so they are realistic about their competence and thus rate their confidence in their own abilities as moderate, even as their performance is, of course, expert-level.

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  • Author Daniel Kahneman
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    Emotional learning may be quick, but what we consider as “expertise” usually takes a long time to develop.

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