Quotes about Specialization

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.

nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character.

Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they end up knowing more and more about less and less. It's a malaise that has now infected A-levels and GCSEs.

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.

A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don't ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts. Where we use them and how determines whether we actually complete something.

Jim Rohn said, "If you read one book every month about your industry, in ten years you'll have read 120 books. That will put you in the top one percent of your field.

All men are ignorant, just in different fields.

We are living in an age of specialists but sometimes a specialist is a man who no longer sees the forest of truth for the trees of fact.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.