Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

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.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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

Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things.

A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

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

The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.

I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.

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.

It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man.

I'm not just trying to be good at one thing and then call it a day. I want to be like Bruno Mars.

There are not too many people who are polymathic these days.

The uniqueness about me is I don't do one thing perfectly or great. I do a little bit of everything. That's what makes me so unique. I'm just trying to master a little bit of everything.

I've always wanted to be - I know people think this is an insult - but a jack of all trades.

Laurence Fishburne - he's a great actor, but he dances and sings, too? He can just do everything.

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

I'm a modern-day renaissance man.

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

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.

Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.

I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

People can pick and choose what they want out of it, but I feel like I'm a modern day Renaissance man of anything you could want me to do... except be six inches taller.

I think 'renaissance woman' is a really fancy way of saying that I'm scatter-brained and non-commital.