One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.

Science is full of questions and often those questions do not have answers. Expertise on the other hand, is a conclusion, it's full of hubris incapable of acknowledging its own mistakes.

Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

The truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Experimentation is a big part of how you find the best of the best.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

When you're challenged to the extreme, you learn so much about yourself. And when you're willing to give that ultimate sacrifice, when you're willing to tackle a job or a task or a mission head-on and give 100%, you can achieve amazing things because you're almost fearless.

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.

Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

Somebody does know how stuff works, and knowledge is power. Thus, as we become enslaved by our ever-more sophisticated technology, we are at the mercy of those with The Knowledge, and their arrogance is growing. Beware geeks bearing gifts.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Power is competence.

Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.

Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.

When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.

Exceptional firms have always been good at aligning their mission or purpose with their execution and, as a result, have enjoyed category leadership in sales and profits.

The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It's experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.