Experts Quotes - Page 5

• Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Badass, Work

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Men, Would Be, Definitions

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• An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Mistake, Failure, Math

  Der Teil und das Ganze ("The Part and the Whole," 1969) ch. 17 (translated by A. J. Pomerans in 1971 as Physics and Beyond)

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• America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.

  W. H. Auden

  Country, Men, Law

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• Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Bullying, Two, Common Sense

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Over the Teacups”, p.148, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

  Roseanne Barr

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Anger

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• Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Sarcastic, Iraq

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• Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Tasks

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• A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Cutting, Men, Thinking

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• People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

  George Carey

  Jesus, Swag, People

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• The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

  Nathaniel Borenstein

  Humorous, Learning, Agreement

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• Experts agree that the best type of computer for your individual needs is one that comes on the market about two days after you actually purchase some other computer.

  Dave Barry

  Two, Needs, Computer

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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• Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

  Edward T. Hall

  People, Theatre, Needs

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• I'm not an expert on the arms race.

  Abdul Kalam

  Race, Arms, Arms Race

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• I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.

  Cathy Freeman

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.

  Stuart Symington

  Believe, Gun, Daylight

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• I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

  Robert E. Howard

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Dark Valley Destiny: The Life of Robert E. Howard". Book by L. Sprague deCamp, Catherine Crook (p. 156), 1983.

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• My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision but I know he's right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I'm a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk.

  David Carradine

  Fighting, Decision, Kung Fu

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• There are as many opinions as there are experts.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Opinion

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

  Hans Rosling

  Country, Travel, Motivation

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• Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic

  Peyton Manning

  Believe In Yourself, Criticism, Experience

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• An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

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• As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

  Carl Rogers

  Perceive, Know How, Knows

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• My study is NOT as a climatologist, but from a completely different perspective in
  which I am an expert … For decades, as a professional experimental test engineer, I have analyzed experimental data and watched others massage and present data. I became a cynic; My conclusion - 'if someone is aggressively selling a technical product who's merits are dependent on complex experimental data, he is likely lying'. That is true whether the product is an airplane or a Carbon Credit.

  Burt Rutan

  Lying, Airplane, Data

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