#expert

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. ↗

— Sissela Bok

#both #breathing #burden #childhood #confers

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used. ↗

— Ato Boldon

#am #basically #could #expertise #first

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#better #domains #example #expertise #experts

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

#being #being in love #dissected #expert #i

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet. ↗

— Robert Caro

#become #deliberately #effort #expert #i

We would much prefer to see ownership in the hands of the Maple Group, if only because we would much rather see Canadian ownership of our stock exchange. What we are first of all interested in is making sure that Montreal is able to preserve that niche or expertise. ↗

— Jean Charest

#because #canadian #exchange #expertise #first

I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#bradley #engaged #experts #get #i

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#ambitious #contract #covering #devious #discovery

In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#best #capable #changing #course #every

It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#asia #been #children #expertise #given