My background is in psychology - that's what my bachelor's degree is from, and my specialization. — Antoni Porowski Copy Share Image
Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“The ideal of an “all-round” education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell 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
Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity. — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. — Samuel Butler 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
The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is… — Stephan Kinsella 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
This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism. — Minnie Maddern Fiske 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
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
We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any… — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
“Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
I love to exercise my creativity in many ways but as each year of specialization goes by I feel further and further… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
“The outstanding characteristic of Western scholarship is its specialization and cutting up of knowledge into different departments. The over-development of logical thinking… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Old Sam Hamilton saw this coming. He said there couldn’t be any more universal philosophers. The weight of knowledge is too great… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“Because by definition they lack any such sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The Sun King had dinner each night alone. He chose from forty dishes, served on gold and silver plate. It took a… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“The progress of science has been amazingly rapid in the last decade; but consider the savants, those exhausted hens. They are certainly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image