Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value.

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.

The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in even a limited department of science can be consulted with much profit. This change, of course, has its advantages for the initiated, in securing precision and concisement of statement; but it tends to narrow the field in which an investigator can labor, and it cannot fail to become, in the future, a serious impediment …

I'm very good at solving mysteries.

When you have a deep focus, you can't go wrong at all. Not when you're an expert at what you do.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.

No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.

The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

Focus on just a few things, and do them better than anybody else.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

We want experts, our finest people. We don't want people that are B level, C level, D level. We have to get our absolute best and the recommendations have to be a combination of defensive technologies tailored to specific agencies and every other discipline involved.

The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance.

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.

Stay in your lane. If you're good enough, people will move to you.

Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts.

You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?" "Yes, he did." "When did he say this?" "When he left me." "Did he say anything more?" "He mentioned his name." Holmes cast a swift glance of triumph at me. "Oh, he mentioned his name, did he? That was imprudent. What was the name that he mentioned?" “His name," said the cabman, "was Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to "this is this" or "that is that." I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on.