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Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill
it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
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---- Steve Dembo
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Average to Expert
Teach 42 has an interesting post about Average Joe morphing into Joe Expert. I found it to be interesting and makes me think about the people who I consider to be experts in their various fields.
In my mind it comes down to having the courage to present their ideas (written or spoken), having the background knowledge to support those ideas, and finally the experience that lends authority to their voice. Experience to me is the key to being an expert especially in light of Ericssons views on expertise. I’ve used articles by Ericsson in two essays and referred to them many times in conversations with colleagues and friends.





Charles wrote 102 words on Sunday Jun 15, 2008 at 04:48 AM
What you’re saying is not quite the same as the idea of expert as noted in Ericssons’ views. As the paper states,
Most individuals who start as active professionals or as beginners in a domain change their behavior and increase their performance for a limited time until they reach an acceptable level. Beyond this point, however, further improvements appear to be unpredictable and the number of years of work and leisure experience in a domain is a poor predictor of attained performance (Ericsson & Lehmann, 1996).
You might also look at Philip Ross’s review of expertise in The Expert Mind (Scientific American).