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• For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

  Bob Barr

  Parent, Special, Would Be

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

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Compassion, Giving, Speech

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• Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Fashion, Stills

  Interview with Sean Ingle, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

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• Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Boys, Men, Choices

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• All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If a declared interest is potentially significant, then the expert is either excluded from the meeting or given a restricted role.

  Margaret Chan

  Roles, Groups, Significant

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• Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill.

  Margaret Chan

  Children, Moving, Mean

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• My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.

  Oleg Deripaska

  Summer, Jobs, Casting

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• Don't listen to experts.

  James Dyson

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• I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Technology, Focus, Half

  "Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's best shot" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2009.

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• I am an expert witness because I say I am.

  Don Henley

  Egotism, Witness

  Song: The Garden of Allah

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• Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

  George Meany

  Financial, Economics, Skeptical

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• High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.

  Anthony Giddens

  Risk, Climate, Characteristics

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.127, John Wiley & Sons

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• Focus on identifying your target audience, communicating an authentic message that they want and need and project yourself as an "expert" within your niche.

  Kim Garst

  Target Audience, Focus, Messages

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• As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?

  Richard Dooling

  Machines, Use, Credit

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• And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

  John Frankenheimer

  Writing, Thinking, Editors

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• With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.

  Lena Headey

  Real, Important, Fandoms

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• I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Mean, Knowing, Littles

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• I was an expert horseman.

  Harry Carey, Jr.

  Horsemen

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• Sure, you're an intelligent and highly capable individual, and you are learning a lot on the fly as you build your company. But you also need to come to terms with the fact that there are things you have chosen not to be an expert in.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Intelligent, Needs, Facts

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• Everybody was kung-fu fighting, those kids were fast as lightning. In fact, it was a little bit frightening, make sure you have expert timing.

  Carl Douglas

  Revenge, Kids, Fighting

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• Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Writing, Discovery, Quality

  "Siddhartha Mukherjee: 'A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2011.

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• One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.

  Amy Ryan

  Jobs, Smart, Moving

  "Amy Ryan Interview Green Zone". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. March 10, 2010.

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• I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Spiritual, Emotional, Attachment

  "Q&A with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf". Religion News Service Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I get really frustrated during a crisis when I go through all the cable channels and find - very often with the exception of CNN - that I'm not watching news at all. You think, 'Well, God... there are talk shows, talk shows, talk shows and everyone is an expert!

  Howard Stringer

  Thinking, Cnn, Frustrated

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• How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.

  Nicholas Stern

  Voice, Faces, Climate

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