Professionalism Quotes

A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.

Ruggiero Ricci

An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

Oscar Wilde

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Alistair Cooke

A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects.

Martin H. Fisher

The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.

Elaine Morgan

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Will Rogers

Good counselors lack no clients.

William Shakespeare

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Colin Powell

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Plato

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

William James Mayo

Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.

Ogden Nash

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

George Bernard Shaw

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Bertrand Russell

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Steven Weinberg

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

Lord Samuel

America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an ?lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.

W. H. Auden

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we --we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

Doris Lessing

It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is the laconic way in which, as a daughter of the epoch that saw the Napoleonic Wars, she contrives like a Greek dramatist to keep it off the stage while she concentrates on the human factor. I think this comes close to affectation on the part of some of her admirers. Captain Frederick Wentworth in , for example, is partly of interest to the female sex because of the 'prize' loot he has extracted from his encounters with Bonaparte's navy. Still, as one born after Hiroshima I can testify that a small Hampshire township, however large the number of names of the fallen on its village-green war memorial, is more than a world away from any unpleasantness on the European mainland or the high or narrow seas that lie between. (I used to love the detail that Hampshire's 'New Forest' is so called because it was only planted for the hunt in the late eleventh century.) I remember watching with my father and brother through the fence of Stanstead House, the Sussex mansion of the Earl of Bessborough, one evening in the early 1960s, and seeing an immense golden meadow carpeted entirely by grazing rabbits. I'll never keep that quiet, or be that still, again.This was around the time of countrywide protest against the introduction of a horrible laboratory-confected disease, named 'myxomatosis,' into the warrens of old England to keep down the number of nibbling rodents. Richard Adams's lapine masterpiece is the remarkable work that it is, not merely because it evokes the world of hedgerows and chalk-downs and streams and spinneys better than anything since , but because it is only really possible to imagine gassing and massacre and organized cruelty on this ancient and green and gently rounded landscape if it is organized and carried out against herbivores.

Christopher Hitchens

Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized ac

Max Weber