A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, (cont. Specialization is for insects. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman 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
“The ideal of an “all-round” education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge.”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
Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art. — Ovid Copy Share Image
My background is in psychology - that's what my bachelor's degree is from, and my specialization. — Antoni Porowski Copy Share Image
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“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 path of specialization leads away from the ordinary and concrete acts of understanding in terms of which man actually lives his… — William Barrett 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
contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I'm really troubled by the prevalence of single-sport specializations. I want my kids to do as many things for as long as… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is… — William Bolitho 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
The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the… — Alvin Lustig Copy Share Image
I think at a place like Harvard, our experience, I was involved with, at various stages, in trying to implement a new… — Louis Menand 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
The standardization and specialization of industrialization was being undermined by globalization. When people in Bangladesh could produce things much more cheaply than… — Grace Lee Boggs 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
The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great… — Robert M. Pirsig 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 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 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
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity. — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of… — Michael Martin Hammer Copy Share Image
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The gains from specialization go all the way back to Adam Smith. He talked about the advantage of a bigger market being… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own,… — Morihei Ueshiba 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
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
In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical… — Paul Samuelson 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
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