Experts Quotes - Page 6

• Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.

  Thomas Szasz

  Medicine, Mendacity, Testimony

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.162, Transaction Publishers

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• There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

  Georges Pompidou

  Men, Gambling, Listening

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• Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, Addiction, Greed

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.88, Penguin UK

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• ‎Experts are clueless.

  Steve Jobs

  Clueless

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• Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter has filed papers to run for president. But in his official filing, he misspelled the word 'president.' Political experts say it's all part of Hunter's plan to attract Bush supporters.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Political, President

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• You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

  Denis Waitley

  Thinking, Gains, Expertise

  "Empires of the Mind: Lessons to Lead and Succeed in a Knowledge-based World". Book by Denis Waitley, 1995.

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• First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.

  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

  Different, Matter, Firsts

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• I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Work, Passion, Careers

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• My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Family, Time

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• Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert.

  Allan Pease

  Brain, Pay, Surgeons

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• I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

  Dustin Hoffman

  War, Believe, Oil

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• I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

  David Antin

  Want, Range, Audience

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• We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

  Donald A. Norman

  Motivational, Teacher, Emotional

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• Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Middle East, Concur, East

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• The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

  Oliver Lodge

  May, Matter, Kind

  Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

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• If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.

  Jock Sturges

  Country, Art, Museums

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• I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.

  Renny Harlin

  Real, Motor Oil, Shells

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• 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

  Breathing Space, Giving, Childhood

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• I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.

  David Thewlis

  Thinking, Feelings, Potters

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

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• I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

  Jim Lehrer

  Practice, Asking Questions, Literature

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

  Ben Stiller

  Humor, Sense Of Humor

  "'Zoolander': Ben Stiller Interview". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

  Ben Nicholson

  Want

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• There are many experts on how things have been done up to now. If you think something could use a little improvement, you are the expert.

  Robert Breault

  Thinking, Use, Done

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• If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.

  Sydney Biddle Barrows

  War, Experience, Television News

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• Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceedin a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Insecure, Ideas

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