Expertise Quotes - Page 12

• Rather than relying on my skills, the musical ability of my band or the technical expertise of our production team, I want to learn to rely on the leading of the Holy Spirit. Only then will our churches come alive in worship.

  Tim Hughes

  Team, Skills, Musical Ability

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• After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles...
  Nature runs on sunlight.
  Nature uses only the energy it needs.
  Nature fits form to function.
  Nature recycles everything.
  Nature rewards cooperation.
  Nature banks on diversity.
  Nature demands local expertise.
  Nature curbs excesses from within.
  Nature taps the power of limits.

  Janine Benyus

  Running, Nature, Law

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• I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.

  Pope Francis

  Believe, Long, Catholic

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage.

  Henry Paulson

  Creativity, Government, World

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• Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.

  David A. Bednar

  Men, Ordinary, Authority

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• ...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Writing, Names, Crafts

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• Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

  Lorrie Moore

  Real, Writing, Punctuation

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• My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth of—a proposition that I don't understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn't equal mc2, it doesn't, it doesn't! I was lying, so there!

  Daniel Dennett

  Religious, Lying, Richard Feynman

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• In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed tight. My fears evaporate when the automatic doors shush open.

  Dave Eggers

  Doors, Comfort, Competence

  Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.240, Vintage

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• We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant difference being that they have yet to master our expertise in hypocrisy, the gift of our superior intellect that enables us to slaughter one another in droves, more often than not under the auspices of an approving god!

  Rick Yancey

  Jealous, Differences, Hypocrisy

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• Are you still faint from the run? Or was it my kissing expertise?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Running, Kissing, Stills

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October, 2005.

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• Who shot you?" For a moment he looked annoyed. "I fail to see what that's got to do with anything. Reading assures me that anyone who's ever met me would have reason to shoot me, so I must admit with all candor that I have no idea. Was it you?" "If I'd shot you I wouldn't have missed," she said. "Was that wishful thinking or are you in fact a practiced shot?" "Desire would have made up for lack of expertise.

  Anne Stuart

  Reading, Thinking, Ideas

  Anne Stuart (2015). “Anne Stuart The House of Rohan Box Set: The Wicked House of Rohan\Ruthless\Reckless\Breathless\Shameless”, p.161, MIRA

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• The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Art, Mind, Sensitive

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.90, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Silly, Talking, People

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• 3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is a box of 10 Mars bars The Banker says "Because of my expertise in asset management, I''ll look after our resources" The other 2 agree So the Banker opens the box, gobbles down 9 of the Mars bars and hands the last one to the Daily Mail reader He then says " I'd keep an eye on that Asylum seeker, he's after your Mars Bar

  Christopher Brookmyre

  Eye, Islands, Hands

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• At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for everyone....It's not too late to help a neighbor in need and to do it with the swiftness, expertise, generosity and love that resides in the best of who we are.

  George Clooney

  Positive, Generosity, And Love

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• One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non - sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Natural Talent, Rejection, Motivational Sales

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• Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.326, Penguin

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• If businesses are to redeem themselves in the eyes of the public and regain the trust that they have lost, they should worry a lot more about what they stand for and entrust those with expertise in communication a much freer rein to express this in ways that people might recognise as being sincere and sympathetic, rather than stilted and formulaic.

  Nick Baker

  Business, Communication, Eye

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