Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.
And I've never really been a makeup pro.
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.
I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.
The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.
I consider myself an authority on drinking beer.
I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.
I am better at politics than I am at anything else.
If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.
I'm not a macroeconomics person.
I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
I just went through my childhood attic with my sister. I'm not an expert, and I don't mean to put myself in that category, but thinking about Malcolm Gladwell and the 10,000 hours, I was like, Here are my 10,000 hours!
Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
I would by no means call myself an expert or say that I'm extremely into superhero movies, but I've pretty much seen every Avengers movie and Iron Man, so I'd say a good amount.
Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.
You have to go with things that you understand. Businesses that you know.
Because I believe that I know about that aspect of hip-hop better than any one else, I'm trying my best in order to be the most real I can in this situation.
I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.
There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.
We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.
I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.
I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero
