Specialized Quotes
113 Specialized quotes by 99 unique authors
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With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which would…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant…
— Asa Gray
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I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.
— Patrick Dempsey
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Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.
— Tommy Davidson
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I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond…
— Prabal Gurung
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end…
— Abraham Verghese
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of…
— Abraham Verghese
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My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food…
— Jennifer Gilmore
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The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence…
— Tom Robbins
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Humanity's true purpose is not to become stronger physically, it's to become more intelligent-from armies, who increasingly fight with specialized units rather than regiments and…
— Georges St-Pierre
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Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war…
— Bob Graham
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I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in…
— Temple Grandin
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Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.
— Gary Hamel
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Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.
— Mia Hamm
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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
— Aldous Huxley
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
— Karl Marx
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Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people…
— Queen Rania of Jordan
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If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get…
— Kathy Reichs
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Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
— Joe Rogan
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The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.
— Eric Schmidt
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I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large…
— Maurice Strong
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something…
— Max Weber
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Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists.…
— Wendell Berry
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You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional…
— Isaac Asimov
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This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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