John Steinbeck Quotes

Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

I don't look at a man who's expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

I think I'm okay at everything and not spectacular at any one thing that Kaggle does.

For 30 years I've been schooled in everything from government, and economics, to medicine and international relations. But don't be impressed. Someone once said being a general assignment reporter simply means you are equally ignorant about most everything. In other words, I know a little about a lot.

Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.

In the age of the specialist, the generalsit gets short shrift.

I know a little bit about a lot of things. I don't go very deep in any one field, except maybe '90s baseball.

I know I'm in a 'jack of all, master of none' situation, but I like it that way.

I've learned that just because you're successful in one area doesn't necessarily mean you'll be successful in another.

A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

I know a little about a lot of things. But I don't know a lot about everything.

The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.

You want to know a little about a lot.

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.

But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person.

I'm very simple. I have to be. I'm not very smart. I start broad, then go deep where I'm interested.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.

I wouldn't say that I'm a jack-of-all-trades, master of none, but I wouldn't say that I'm brilliant at any.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

I've always dipped my finger in so many things.