Mastery & Expertise Quotes (2727 Quotes)

This is a real shift in control for the first time, ... For the first time, you have the talent in control instead of the employer.

Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate. Consequently th

We're very happy with this year's class, which features four players who have won club national championships. We were specifically targeting certain positions and people, and we met our expectations. We've gotten to the point where I'm so happy with the talent and depth on our team and where we are at that we are now looking at trying to replace a player that leaves. Before we were trying to up the total level of our talent, but now, we're reloading. This class not only has players who will contest for playing time immediately, but it also prepares us for when other people will graduate.

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

They've got some great young talent, guys who are ready to win now. No one around the league is surprised they're in the playoff hunt. What's scary is that they're just going to get better over the next few years.

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

Jeff is worthy of this for a lot of reasons, ... He has the maturity, the talent, the experience, the leadership. But he has a neat perspective of this club that not many people with this club, or any club would have about their team.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

Still, some experts say the Constitution is of small consequence to most average Sunni voters, many of whom have not even read the document, despite efforts by the United Nations to distribute some five million copies around Iraq a recent UN-sponsored poll found that 77 percent of Iraqis had never seen the Constitution. I think for most Iraqis its not a big issue, ... The big issues are water, electricity and security.

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

I actually think of all the years I've been here with the program, this is the team with the best chemistry together. This is the best overall talent, there's a lot of depth.

This is a very dangerous year for Britain. The Germans have some extraordinary talent, and they are saying they can win the individual and team gold.

The 1994 season at Penn State was just a fabulous experience, ... We knew we had outstanding talent, but we also had a bunch of guys who were very focused, knew what they wanted and understood what it would take to get the job done and we went out and did it against some outstanding teams. When you see a bunch of young men coming together like that for a common goal, it is very satisfying.

Our new engineering center is key to our success in China. It enables us to locally support our customers with technical expertise, engineering and testing while saving time and costs, and strengthening communications. Additionally, we'll be able to localize global programs more efficiently and evolve to meet our customers' needs for a greater range of products and technologies.

We've all committed ourselves to having a good team, and we have a lot of individual talent. I think one-on-one, individually, we're better than any team in the country.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it.

The NRC is an expert, independent, nonpartisan body whose standards are based on solid research, consistent with the recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences, ... I believe the industry has a very legitimate long-term concern over having to abide by EPA standards that are politically driven and not scientifically based.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

It was his first game as a full-time starter for us. We have a lot of talent around him, a lot of veteran players. He doesn't need to be Joe Montana right now. He has time to develop into that. As long as we play well around him, I think he'll continue to develop and be the great quarterback we expect him to be.

I tell you, when you think about playing football, baseball, soccer, well, everyone knows how to run or walk. But skating is very unnatural. It's the development of that talent, then kicking the speed up a couple of notches, and it's just very thrilling.

Tony is one of a kind, a great communicator with a great personality who just happens to be an expert in hurricanes and humor. We are thrilled that he is rejoining our award-winning team at Fox 5 News,

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

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You can never have enough talent.

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The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

We have the expertise to provide the Latino market with the Internet power and resources it needs and is ready to use.

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

The challenge is changing the mindset toward winning, ... When you walk out on the field every day, you got to expect to kick butt -- or they're going to kick yours. It's not all about talent.

Is it too ingenuous to imagine that anything can be left to say about a garden Garden literature, descriptive, reminiscent, and technical, has blossomed so profusely among us during the last decade, that he should be an expert indeed who ventures to add thereto.

I knew they had some talent. The question was whether we could bring discipline to that talent. During the course of the year, I think we've done that.

He clearly has the talent to play basketball at the professional level, but if anyone can make the transition, it's him.

The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius.... They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead man hopes genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.

He knew what he had. He knew the talent he had and that it was only a matter of time. Sometimes it does take time to bring a team along. No one is better about guiding young players through troubled waters better than Bill.

Cherry Hills will be used as support for the argument that Wie's path will leave her not only with a poor foundation for winning majors but unprepared to deal with inevitable criticism. I just hope this doesn't backfire on this young girl, ... I'm very concerned about her future. It's obvious the talent is there, but I think it's all gotten too big, too soon, and it's going to be harder for her than the people around her think. What happens if she ends up resenting the whole thing If she gets under so much pressure that she just says, 'What do I need this for' Because if you get separated from the joy and passion, it's over.

When you're dealing with someone like Shirley, it's a little insulting to ask her to come in for a meeting. But I wanted to meet her first and talk to her about the character, because there was a very big 'if' on it for me. Shirley is such a powerful presence, personality and talent, and she has used that power effectively over a long and rich career. But I wanted to know she would be able to put a damper on all of that and go to a very quiet place to play this character who is literally hiding from life, who has put a lid on everything because of her guilt, her fear and her unresolved issues. If Shirley could go to that kind of a place, and then blossom as her character's life broadens, I thought it would be very exciting.

You can't outplay your talent. Teams that win have good offensive lines.

You can see they have some talent in places, and they have some needs in places. I think I'd be a good fit.

He was very effective as chairman of the budget committee, ... When you lose a commissioner that's got 11 years of service, you lose that expertise.

The CIA, FBI and other agencies have made some progress in identifying and hiring foreign language experts. But the pipeline doesn't really exist. They're drawing from an almost nonexistent pool,

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

I love his talent. I really think point guards have so much to learn in our game, when to be aggressive, when not to be aggressive, when to shoot. It seems like he has lost a little confidence in those areas, but talent wise he will be an NBA player for a lot of years. He's just going to have to learn how to fit in a little bit better.