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Specialization is for insects.
Robert A. Heinlein / Science Writer
Insects
Specialization
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Specialization is the great evil of civilization.
Wendell Berry / Novelist
Civilization
Evil
Specialization
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My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.
Ian Lustick /
Academic
Specialization
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The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essayist
Good Shoes
Shoes
Specialization
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The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.
Beryl Smalley /
Amount
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I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.
Gregory Benford / Fictioneer
Best
Felt
Insects
Left
Specialization
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You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.
Arthur Miller / Playwright
One Day
Specialization
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Samuel Butler / Author
Division
Effort
Labor
Specialization
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Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
America
Building
North America
Profession
Specialization
Nowhere
Deeply
Professions
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I majored in English with a specialization in creative writing along with Asian American Studies.
Randall Park / Actor
Creative Writing
Specialization
Studies
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My background is in psychology - that's what my bachelor's degree is from, and my specialization.
Antoni Porowski /
Psychology
Specialization
Background
Bachelor
Degree
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Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.
Jamais Cascio /
Complexity
Decrease
Increase
Needs
Specialization
Increases
Participatory
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This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
Minnie Maddern Fiske / Actress
Specialization
Ludicrous
Repertory
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The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.
Simone Weil / Philosopher
Bureaucracy
Civilization
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Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
Samuel E. Morison /
Generalization
Historian
Indulgence
Reputation
Specialization
Synthesis
Ultimate
Broad
Rigid
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In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.
Dennis Flanagan / Author
Life
Science
Missing
Missing You
Specialization
Life Age People
Offer
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The gains from specialization go all the way back to Adam Smith. He talked about the advantage of a bigger market being that we could have a finer division of labor and be more specialized.
Paul Romer / Economist
Adam
Advantage
Bigger
Division
Gains
Labor
Specialization
Finer
Market
Smith
Specialized
Talked
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Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.
Albert Einstein / Theoretical Physicist
Depends
Specialization
Spirit
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The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
Charles Horton Cooley / Sociologist
Organized
Rivalry
Specialization
Utilizing
Co-Operation
Effective
Effective Way
Same Time
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Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'
Martin Filler /
Architecture
Design
Considering
Dave
Firsts
Graphic
Specialization
Batman
Chip
Surprised
Taylor
Thoroughly
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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
John Kenneth Galbraith / Economist
Academic
Aspect
Cerebral
Criticism
Inadequacy
Latter
Literary Criticism
Specialization
Terminal
Extreme
Cherished
Cover
Literary
Grave
Whom
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Rising living standards - whether in a village, a region, a nation, or the world - depend first on specialization: on letting people concentrate on what they do best and trade with others who specialize in other things.
Virginia Postrel / Writer
Rising
Specialization
Standards
Trade
Village
Best World Living
Nation
Depend
Letting
Region
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Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.
P. J. O'rourke / Satirist
Adam
Division
Division Of Labor
Labor
Prosperous
Pursue
Self
Self Interest
Specialization
Three
Trade
Pointed
Smith
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It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from charlatanry to ambition would be levied and tenure denied. I've seen this first-hand.
Tony Judt / Historian
Academy
Ambition
Denied
Specialization
Tenure
Charges
First-Hand
Levied
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I'm really troubled by the prevalence of single-sport specializations. I want my kids to do as many things for as long as they can. Specialization is a natural thing that should come later - it shouldn't come for 8-year-olds.
Douglas Brunt /
Specialization
Natural Thing
Prevalence
Troubled
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In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching.
Paul Samuelson / Economist
Journalism
Mathematical
Range
Real
Specialization
Teaching
Thinking
Current
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What we've underestimated is the systemic risk that that very finely tuned system of specialization exposes us to. And so I think we will start to ask whether there are ways that we could build some more robustness into our whole system.
Paul Romer / Economist
Risk
Specialization
Underestimated
Ask
Build
Finely
Start
System
Tuned
Ways
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For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.
Kenneth Burke / Author
Classification
Continuity
Corresponding
Degrees
Different
Different Kinds
Kind
Specialization
Degree
Industrial
Required
Status
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
Max Weber / Sociologist
Accomplishment
Conscious
Endure
Lifetime
Specialization
Strict
Today
Achieved
Worker
Definitive
Fully
Perhaps
Scientific
Specialized
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Increased fragmentation of production across international borders - a natural outgrowth of the gains from specialization - meant more trade for any given value of final production, thus adding to the major expansion in gross trade flows in the 1990s and 2000s.
Jerome Powell /
Borders
Fragmentation
Gains
Gross
Specialization
Adding
Flows
Outgrowth
Thus
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The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for.
Jim Lee / Artist
Medical
Becoming
Four
Medical School
Process
Residency
Specialization
Life Doctor Your
All Your Life
Almost All
Doctor
Downside
Finally
Long Process
Trained
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All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.
Max Weber / Sociologist
Age
Analysis
Data
Given
Particular
Principles
Research
Settings
Specialization
Subject Matter
Established
Consider
Cultural
Towards
Oriented
Sciences
Subject
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Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon.
Michael Pollan / Author
Cereal
Computer
Computer Screen
Died
Filth
Forget
Hog
Labor
Lighting
Misery
Plant
Pristine
Specialization
Strawberries
Bacon
Pick
Power Plant
Screen
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We could have managed globalization in ways that ordinary citizens would have benefited rather than just the corporations. Trade is beneficial. There are gains to be had from taking advantage of comparative advantage and specialization. That's true, if you manage globalization right.
Joseph Stiglitz / Economist
Beneficial
Corporations
Gains
Globalization
Manage
Ordinary
Specialization
Taking Advantage
Comparative
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Economists have understood since the Victorian era that the main benefits of trade come from comparative advantage: the idea that people can specialize in what they're good at and then benefit from exchange. The principle is no more mysterious than specialization in the labor market.
David Autor /
Advantage
Labor
Mysterious
Specialization
Trade
Understood
Victorian
Good People More
Come
Since
Benefit
Idea
Comparative
Exchange
Economists
Main
Market
Principle
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People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles - job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don't map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.
Gabe Newell / Manager
Jobs
Opportunity
Creating
Customers
Expectations
Something New
Specialization
Titles
Constantly
Helped
Map
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I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of cooking. Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility.
Michael Pollan / Author
Cooking
Dependence
Helplessness
Ignorance
Specialization
Breeds
Debilitating
Earn
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