Most foreign policies that history has marked highly in whatever country have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
I brought together experts from health care business academic institutions and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.
The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.
As a freelance writer I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.
My expertise was in public finance particularly corporate taxation since I had worked at the US Treasury.
As a medical doctor it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds widen their horizons inflame their intellects teach them to think straight if possible.
I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.
I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.
I give dating advice on a regular basis. It's not that I'm any expert but it's always nice to share that with your friends.
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.
I'm doing everything that I can working with experts really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
Over and over again financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over they ignobly fail because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal ' the 'New York Times ' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
Try try try and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.