Richard M. Weaver Quotes

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

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.

The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.

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.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

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

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.

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.

The biographies of slaves can hardly be individualized; they belong to the class. We know bare facts; it is only the general experience of human beings in like condition which can clothe them with life. The outlines are certain, the details are inferential.

I do a little bit of everything.

I don't want to be a guy that has got one cap.

I've been blessed that my dad taught me at a young age about versatility and how to not be specialized in one area, so it's made my transition from each step in my career very comfortable because I had the fundamentals and the foundation to do anything the coach needed me to do.

I always wanted to do be an allrounder. I don't know why I picked keeping.

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

Often, people are afraid to be good at more than one thing.

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

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

"Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality.

We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.

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 sharp difference should exist between general education and specialized knowledge. As particularly today the latter threatens more and more to sink into the service of pure Mammon, general education, at least in its more ideal attitude, must be retained as a counterweight.

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.