Specialization Quotes

“The expert is a man who knows a great deal about a very little.”

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.”

“People assume that I would be a good director, but I'm not. I'm not a good director. I'm a good visual effects supervisor.”

“Under a system of perfectly free commerce, each country naturally devotes its capital and labour to such employments as are most beneficial to each.”

“Our time is so specialized that we have people who know more and more about less and less.”

“The 'clerk' who is a specialist in a certain scientific domain, but who is entirely devoid of any curiosity as to what is going on in neighbouring domains... represents a type of mind which is new in history.”

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.”

“I take pride in my defense. It’s my calling card.”

“The artist should not be a specialist.”

“A specialist is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.”

“I've always been a low-post player. That's my office.”

“I am a generalist. A generalist is a man who knows less and less about more and more, until he knows nothing about everything.”

“It is a great mistake to think that a painter is a man who can draw and paint anything.”

“Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.”

“You can't be a good hockey player and be a good golfer. The movements are so different.”

“I'm a doctor, not an engineer.”

“I'm a surgeon, not a psychiatrist.”

“I'm a point guard, I've always been a point guard.”

“Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to live, and on the other hand, the larger the world of which he has to be a part.”

“A man is not likely to be a good economist if he is nothing else.”