expertness

• “Regarding the subject at hand here, though, I think that "expertness" in the case of the violinist and the programmer, it had a lot to do with being an expert at the use of the very few tools for those 10,000 hours (violin + sheet music or computer and programming language).”

  Marketing Profs Daily Fix

• “I was ASTOUNDED by Mexico's intelligence and expertness in response and preparation for the cane.”

  DEAN

• “Paraprofessional aides are much less technically expert than are professionals, but they often more than make up for their lower degree of technical expertise through their greater social expertness.”

  Simon & Schuster: Diffusion of Innovations

• “Since I saw it as a way up the ladder on expertness, I said yes, then hated the experience feeling like I was a shill because I had to mention the vehicles (of course) when I was talking about the organizing tips.”

  Ethics, Paid Reviews and Affiliate Programs

• “Louis showed all the bravery and expertness of an experienced huntsman; for, unheeding the danger, he rode up to the tremendous animal, which was defending itself with fury against the dogs, and struck him with his boar spear; yet, as the horse shied from the boar, the blow was not so effectual as either to kill or disable him.”

  Quentin Durward

• “Perceived expertness, in turn, tends to legitimate the leadership role Goodstadt & Kipnis, 1970.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Bass Handbook of Leadership

• “The two groups basically agreed on the relative importance of physical strength, sociability, expertness, fairness, fearlessness, and helpfulness as sources of power.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Bass Handbook of Leadership

• “In this state of impotent expertness, however, or in some equally unsound state, economics must struggle on — a science that is no science, a floundering lore wallowing in a mud of statistics — until either the study of the material organisation of production on the one hand as a development of physics and geography, or the study of social aggregation on the other, renders enduring foundations possible.”

  A Modern Utopia

• “Thus Nazism, as it proceeded from practice to theory, had to deny expertness in thinking and then this second process was never completed, in order to fill the vacuum, had to establish expert thinking of its own — that is, to find men of inferior or irresponsible caliber whose views conformed dishonestly or, worse yet, honestly to the Party line.”

  Firedoglake » Constitutional Disconnect

• “Then Craven remembers The Games by John Clarke, and again, I agree with his esteem for its ‘sheer expertness ... and adherence to a vision’.”

  Archive 2006-02-01

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