A Quote by Wim Wenders

It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.

Wim Wenders

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Wim Wenders
German - Director
Born: August 14, 1945

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

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Every day you spend becoming an expert in a field, you become more useless in that field.

Naveen Jain

If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.

Earl Nightingale

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Liam McIntyre

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Harriet Martineau

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Jason Blum

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Pat McAfee

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Colin Kaepernick

To not realize that everyone we think about affects us psychically, to not realize that life is a field of power, is criminal, in my opinion. If you are a sensitive and evolved being, it is simply criminal.

Frederick Lenz

If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.

Robert A. Heinlein

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Dan Shechtman

I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.

Moshe Dayan

Even before Plato, techne was conceived as knowledge of a determinate field that could be mastered by "the expert". Such a person becomes an authority to whom laypersons should, in their dealings with that field, defer. Techne typically results in a useful result.