individual expertise Quotes

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.

I know my body better than anything, better than anybody.

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

What being among the 'right people' entails is the possession of human capital, rather than organizational capital: an individual reputation, portable skills, and network connections. Career responsibility is squarely in the hands of individuals, a function of their knowledge and networks. Transferable knowledge is more important to a career than firm-specific knowledge.

This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.