#expert

We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#naïveté #imagination

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#expert #giving #heartbeats #i #podium

The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice. ↗

— Hassanal Bolkiah

#benefit #best #business #continues #country

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#disposed #exist #experts #favourably #feel

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me. ↗

— Juan Cole

#apparent #exit #exit strategy #expertise #extrapolate

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#being #brain #director #eating #experts

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#being #expert #just #makes #medicine

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. ↗

— James Callaghan

#advice #against #courage #expert #leader

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

Now, looking for labels, it is hard to call the Hell's Angels anything but mutants. They are urban outlaws with a rural ethic and a new, improvised style of self-preservation. Their image of themselves derives mainly from Celluloid, from the Western movies and two-fisted TV shows that have taught them most of what they know about the society they live in. Very few read books, and in most cases their formal education ended at fifteen or sixteen. What little they know of history has come from the mass media, beginning with comics ... so if they see themselves in terms of the past, it's because they can't grasp the terms of the present, much less the future. They are the sons of poor men and drifters, losers and the sons of losers. Their backgrounds are overwhelmingly ordinary. As people, they are like millions of other people. But in their collective identity they have a peculiar fascination so obvious that even the press has recognized it, although not without cynicism. In its ritual flirtation with reality the press has viewed the Angels with a mixture of awe, humor and terror -- justified, as always, by a slavish dedication to the public appetite, which most journalists find so puzzling and contemptible that they have long since abandoned the task of understanding it to a handful of poll-takers and "experts. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#mutants #poll-takers #the-press #education