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  • It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

  • I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

    Fun   White   Office  
    "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 24, 2008.
  • If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

    Strong   Player   Ideas  
  • My specialty is mythology.There are artifacts like the hallows scattered through just about every mythology. However, what makes the Celtic hallows so interesting is that they are a self-contained group of objects.

    Source: emunderwood.com
  • Impossible situations are our specialty.

    Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.50, Penguin
  • You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general view of the subject, study the history of the sciences. Broad knowledge of all Nature has been the possession of no naturalist except Humboldt, and general relations constituted his specialty.

  • Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

    "Chaos: Making a New Science". Book by James Gleick, p. 70, 1987.
  • There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

    William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.61, Ravenio Books
  • It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow themselves the privilege of ranging freely through social classes and professional specialties. A certain pride in their own experience, perhaps a sense of the property rights of others in their experience, holds them back.

    Pride   Rights   Class  
    Saul Bellow (2016). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future”, p.62, Odyssey Editions
  • Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

  • Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.

    Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.154, Shambhala Publications
  • Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

    Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.206, Hoover Press
  • It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world

  • I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.

    School   People   Taught  
    The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.
  • The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn't running his specialty. Mostly, the idea of losing in front of my people. They haven't forgotten about me.

    Running   Ideas   People  
  • Specialists can never practice their specialties too much. The danger is in not practicing enough. Make that mistake, and soon you may not be in the specialty business anymore.

  • In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.

  • Reading to small children is a specialty.

  • If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

    Fashion   Southern   Soul  
    "Andy Warhol’s Interview Interview: Dolly Parton" by Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2014.
  • I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.

    Math   Paint   Like Me  
  • Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.

    Life   Business   Book  
    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks
  • There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

    Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.89, Spectra
  • Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity.

    "Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, I. Johnston, trans., § 212, 1886.
  • Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'

  • Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties.

  • Vegetables are called 'specialty crops.' Don't ask me why.

  • The athlete must make a devotion of his specialty.

  • We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.

  • Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

    Men   Way   Study  
  • The new specialty at the Iowa fair this year is fried butter on a stick. Of course, if you're like me and you want like to eat healthy, get your stick of butter baked.

    Iowa   Years   Healthy  
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