My background is in psychology - that's what my bachelor's degree is from, and my specialization. — Antoni Porowski Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Rising living standards - whether in a village, a region, a nation, or the world - depend first on specialization: on letting… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Perhaps the inevitable tragedy of our complex civilization is that we must be specialists in our fields - and our fields have… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The government, as a rule, discourages specialization: Military officers and diplomats are constantly transferred from one post to another, from one region… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
“Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“It is a wholly deplorable state of affairs when specialists in any discipline talk only to each other, and accordingly I have… — Richard Fletcher Copy Share Image
We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“Imagine if one should drag an innocent passer-by from the street to the operating room of a nearby hospital and force him… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial… — Simon Kuznets Copy Share Image
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit; he… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues,… — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
“There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. At Zomick's are specializations within the… — Ron Ben-Israel Copy Share Image
Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
