To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.
Don't be afraid to make things up. Never fear being exposed as a fraud. Experts make things up all the time. They're qualified to.
I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
Usually companies hire me, and they know full well who I am, and that's one of the reasons they want to hire me.
I don't have to talk to a surgeon to play a surgeon, you know what I mean?
I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.
I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread.
The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.
Many students don't really like it (fashion). If they don't like it, they won't be able to tell you who the stylists are or the photographers. If they say they can't remember the names but they recognize the work, I'll say that's bullshit because if you were selling mobile phones, you'd know all about the phones' features and tariffs.
I never graduated from college. While I was in a mass communication class at North Texas State University, I was on the air weekends in Dallas and knew more about major-market radio than the guy teaching. When I told him that, he failed me.
Roddy actually was in the business longer then I was and started sooner than I did, and Roddy was a smart guy.
Our profession is one of a progressive character, and it requires all our energies to keep pace with its advancement.
Monti is a person who is an expert on both the political and professional level.
I have a unique perspective just from the career that I've had.
Know the business you're in for whatever you do, know it and understand how it works so you can be successful.
One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you must need to be really smart, and you need to be taught in a carefully thought out, methodical sequence.
When you are not part of an industry, your knowledge of that field is based on what you read and hear and on the stereotypes that are attached to it.
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
