Mastery & Expertise Quotes (2727 Quotes)

Time Warner has to show they still have their expertise.

We encourage people to communicate, but to stay within their area of expertise, ... anything that would really go against our values as a company would be certainly discouraged.

We have exceptional talent, even in the Family Islands but we have to go in there with something new. The local coaches could only take us so far. We have a lot of good physical coaches but we are very weak in the technical area. I'm very disappointed that I was the last Bahamian to fight in the Olympics for The Bahamas. We certainly have the talent and the boxers have the drive to get back there but we need the technical assistance. Winning Caribbean Championships is not enough. We have to win the big one to help us prepare for the Olympics.

We only play Calgary three times, so every game will be crucial for us. The experts say it's Calgary and Arizona in the west, so, obviously, it's a very important game early.

I think he's special because he has a gift to understand the game and the talent to back it up. He sees the floor, he gets everybody else involved and he plays to win.

The war for talent is a real one. The public sector is losing that war, and the consequences are going to become more severe.

Such reckless and partisan intervention in domestic policy debates outside the fund's areas of core expertise can only damage the IMF,

(Tiverton) was really playing a much smarter game than we were. I knew we had more talent. I knew we had more depth. And I knew if we could put the puck in deep and make them carry it the whole way we could tire them out. And that's what we did.

Between 'just desserts' and 'tragic irony' we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.

That was the one universal compliment ... everyone was excited about the course. That's just such a credit to Pat. We could not have had this race without him and his expertise.

Although advertising is communication unusually candid about its motivation, Americans love to loathe it. As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of experts become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some they is manipulating us, using, among other dark arts, advertising.

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

I think it's a compliment to the talent that's on our team, ... I don't think talent in and of itself is the reason why you win championships. I don't think that that will determine where we finish. It will be a character and style and chemistry that's developed through a season at LSU that will determine where we finish.

The list of successful writers, poets, artists, and composers is long ... As a country it is our duty to protect and nourish our artistic talent, not punish it for achieving success,

The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else... some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

but it also made me full of self-doubt and self-loathing because I thought, 'Oh, gosh, I'm not worthy of this kind of attention. I have no talent.'

Volunteers receive a variety of benefits from their experiences. Whether it's finding new friends, learning new skills, discovering latent talents, gaining a new perspective or simply taking pleasure in knowing that you've helped a person in need, volunteering offers numerous opportunities to an individual to be changed and enriched.

You don't see these much in baseball, ... but I think from the literature that you read and the experts you talk to, if you sustain more and more of them, just like any other injury, you become more susceptible and they can become worse.

There are lots of different kinds of investing nicely matched against the structure of a closed end fund, that are not matched through other things. But this is not something you necessarily buy and hold forever. You've got to watch interest rates ... and be somewhat involved. But do you need to be an expert No.

Back then, we realized we needed an influx of young talent, ... We are approaching the 2002 draft in that manner.

I'm not going to make excuses, but I do feel we have the talent to be a very good offense. There are just a couple of areas where we have to do things better.

Barry was really good, and he was good yesterday. He's been really focused. We knew he's had the talent all year. He showed some spurts midway through the season, and late in the season, he's giving us good minutes. He has the talent, and now he's figuring out what to do with it.

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

It's a nice honor to have three players recognized. I think it speaks not only to the talent of those players but also their unselfishness to be willing to share awards with their teammates, much like the Detroit Pistons had four all-stars, but no one who started in the all-star game.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

Clients throughout the Middle East really appreciate sector expertise. Things move very quickly here.

It's about a young man with a talent for music and hip-hop but who has to survive the worst neighborhoods.

By creating a specialized economic crimes unit, we are helping to combat with specialization, the expertise necessary to stay one step ahead of the constantly evolving new ways of committing crimes.

He is a driver with talent, ability and maturity, he manages to finish all his races. My record is going to be in good hands. Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honour for me to break Jim Clark's record (as youngest champion),

The irony is we went way out of the world and had to learn worldly skills to survive out there. What people who understand us discover is we have experts is every field of human endeavor.

FEMA lost their expertise, their ability to help local governments.

I'm delighted that we have been able to assemble such a stellar cast of British comedy acting talent.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded . . .

We are delighted the government has made a bold investment in the talent and excellence of Canadian artists,

I've always felt that you try in MLS to find a balance. You need young talent. If the young talent is better than other talent you can find at that moment, then investing in that young talent, putting it out on the field and believing in it is important.

Don't close it. Don't shrink it. Don't hack it up, ... Don't starve it of resources. Don't drain it of its professional talent. Don't hand it over to strangers. Don't pass the buck. Don't ignore it, and don't abandon the people it serves day in and day out.

We've got people here who have a talent for preserving and interpreting history and an audience who wants to learn about it. And the key is to match them up. We've gotten a tremendous response from the small schools. Those communities are tight-knit, where the school is the core of the community, and where they maybe don't have access to the larger curriculum of other schools.

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

Gorham is really stepping up. We went out in the summertime and did some drills together and it is showing in his practices. They all look good. They are all working hard and they have been competing. Brown and Cook look like they are going to be good and they have been working real hard. They have so much talent.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

There are a lot of different diseases that look like CJD and it is so rare many doctors may never even see it in their years of practice. We don't have a lot of experience with it, so we're asking the CDC to review the cases where autopsies were not done to give us an expert opinion on whether they were likely CJD cases.

Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.

Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, "big picture" understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.

We have a good mix of personality, talent and community support. In addition, team has dedication and mental toughness as turnout for summer weight training was excellent.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

I feel like directing is an innate talent.