34 Quotes About Specialization

The greatest thing about our times is that you don't need permission to express yourself the way you wish. Sometimes people tell themselves they can't do it, because they're missing this or that, but historically, specialization is a recent convention. Most of us are born natural polymaths.

Always improve on things you do better and faster.

The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him.

If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly.

The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it.

But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.

A specialist’s mind is a slave to his specialization.

There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.

Leaders reject free opportunities they don't need, so that they can have time to create the expensive opportunities they need.