Top 235 Expert Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Expert Quotes from famous people such as David Carradine, Konrad Lorenz, James Callaghan, Angela Duckworth, Crystal Hana Kim, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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My big fight is not in the movie and I don’t understand that decision but I know he’s right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I’m a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk.
David Carradine
From a neighbour, I got a one-day-old duckling and found, to my intense joy, that it transferred its following response to my person. At the same time, my interest became irreversibly fixated on water fowl, and I became an expert on their behaviour even as a child.
Konrad Lorenz
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.
James Callaghan
Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort. It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert.
Angela Duckworth
By the time I was a teen, I was an expert at scanning people’s faces, always in search of eyes like mine. I devoured glossy magazines, ever mindful of the language we used to talk about beauty. The sections on how to apply makeup intrigued me most precisely because their audience never included me.
Crystal Hana Kim
We live in a world where everybody’s an expert. Everybody’s doing a YouTube video. Everyone’s doing a tutorial of what needs to happen.
Bianca Del Rio
I am not an expert on that whole issue of gender.
Ruth Westheimer
I don’t see myself as a particularly expert angler.
Jeremy Wade
I love greengrocers. When I walk in I always look at their pyramids of fruit to see if they have done it properly because I thought I was an expert pyramid builder.
Martin Kemp
I can play ‘Guitar Hero,’ most of the songs on Medium and some of the songs on Hard. No Expert.
Ryan Hansen
In 1991, only two years into the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice suddenly left her powerful job as the top Russia expert on the National Security Council and went back to California – to get a life.
Elaine Sciolino
Before you can challenge a received narrative about the past, you should be expert in its established contours.
Heather Mac Donald
People think just because I’m from the Middle East, I’m an expert on the Middle East. So, like, I got a friend, like, any time the gas prices go up, he’ll always ask my opinion about it.
Maz Jobrani
People often say to me, ‘I don’t know anything about dance.’ I say, ‘Stop. You got up this morning, and you’re walking. You are an expert.’
Twyla Tharp
I’m an expert at kissing girls necks, they love it. Girls say I’m quite sensitive, but I’m hyperactive too.
Lee Ryan
I owe much to mother. She had an expert’s understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
David Rockefeller
I’ve always been a fan of old-time hymns and Scots-Irish dirges, though I wouldn’t necessarily consider myself an expert on the type of music that was performed in those days.
Ryan Bingham
I decided to do advertising, as ad films were made in only 10 days, and started assisting Sanjeev Sharma and Mansoor Khan. Surprisingly, I was a whiz kid and soon learnt to edit films and became an expert at it.
Ronit Roy
I think especially as creative people we rely so heavily on our gut instinct to create emotional beats or bring scripts to life. Go with what you feel is right, because thats all we can really do. Were the expert of our own experience, so be as authentic as you can.
Madeleine Madden
I believe – I’m not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this – the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.
Austan Goolsbee
I’m not pretending I can change the world, or to be an expert on social and political affairs. But I certainly have a right to say when something is wrong.
Anoushka Shankar
So let’s say you’re using XYZ product and you want to do something very sophisticated. You subscribe to this thing, you hit a button, and a CA expert pops up in video.
Sanjay Kumar
Bio Life Technical’s strategy of providing technical due diligence by expert professors from core disciplines and world class experts working with interdisciplinary institutes, such as Imperial College’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering, will enable a more thorough scientific evaluation of the technology.
Chris Toumazou
Flash photography can be horrible. In the hands of an expert who knows how to bounce all that searing bright light in the right direction, it may make an impossible picture workable.
David Hewson
First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.
Julius Rosenberg
I am neither a lawyer nor a tax expert, in fact my formal education ended when I finished high school.
Haim Saban
I’m pretty old-fashioned. I feel most people – and this is purely from observation; I’m not an expert – but I think most people want to get married, whatever one might say about the institution of marriage, especially if you are in a long relationship.
Nicholas Stoller
I think cancer – I’m not an expert or a doctor – but I think cancer is the result of undigested dreams and forcing yourself to do something that is not distinctively you.
Noel Edmonds
I don’t think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.
Jenna Bush
I’m not an expert in instruments, beat programming, or electronics. For some people it’s all about doing it themselves. But for me, it’s all about find the people that can help make my vision come true.
Matisyahu
Something happens in school sometimes where you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m not an expert, and I have to defer to people who are.’ And it happens not just in school: it happens in religion, too. Defer to the experts. A printing press is a big deal – they got the Bible, and all of a sudden they could read it for themselves.
Sal Khan
If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enou

If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert.
Andrew Weil
Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
Thomas Szasz
Startups are often very undercapitalised, but I found that to be very beneficial because it forces you not to throw money at problems. Instead, you learn all the nuts and bolts of what you’re doing and become an expert.
Jerry Greenfield
I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I’m not an expert by any means, but it’s so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.
Jeff Bridges
I’m a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
Salman Rushdie
I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It’s certainly the most miserable state to be in but it’s also tremendously gratifying, really – rage feels justified.
Deborah Eisenberg
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
It’s amazing what you can find out if you just call an expert, you know?
Beth Macy
I’m not a big comedy show-watcher, but I love Ricky Gervais’ stuff and Sacha Baron Cohen’s things. But I’m not an expert on them. I’ve seen them once.
Chris Lilley
I’m a head coach. I’m not a politician, an activist, or an expert on societal issues.
Jeff Fisher
The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects in Washington, including Douglas Feith, who ignored expert advice, reserved most of their effort for fighting each other in ideological battles, and regarded the Iraqi people as an afterthought.
George Packer
A good director is not an expert in anything in particular. A good director just knows a little bit about everything.
Nicolas Winding Refn
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Edward de Bono
I am not an expert on time, or on cancer, or on life itself.
Craig Sager
Any good trial lawyer knows that if you’ve got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.
Joe Jamail
On ‘American Top 40’ the Kasem voice soared and swooped, like an expert aural acrobat, through promos, jingles and dedications, usually rising to a dramatic peak for the top-selling song of the week.
Richard Corliss
Everybody is an expert. But at Under Armour, I want people to control what they can control. Leave the pontificating to everyone else. Leave all that negative talk to everyone else.
Kevin Plank
Mind you, physical training doesn’t necessarily mean going to an expert for advice. One doesn’t have to make a mountain out of a molehill. Get out in the fresh air and walk briskly – and don’t forget to wear a smile while you’re at it. Don’t over-do. Take it easy at first and build on your effort day by day.
Douglas Fairbanks
An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.
Edwin Meese
Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5.
Margaret Chan
For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.
Jack Canfield
I don’t really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
Ben Stein