The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity.
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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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.
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Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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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.
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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
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In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
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Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert.
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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
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My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
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A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.
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An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects.
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Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
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Willie may be the most critical Brown we've added in the last five days. He has leadership presence and professionalism. He brings a tremendous amount of credibility to our team.
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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
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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.
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The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.
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He did everything he could and did it with the utmost professionalism and commitment.
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
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The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
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There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
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