Application is the price to be paid for mental…

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use…

— Charles William Eliot

Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which…

— Carl Sagan

“A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt…

— Israelmore Ayivor

But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer acquisition is…

— Arthur Hughes

I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was…

— Carrie Coon

One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of China or…

— Peter Senge

A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused…

— Lester R. Brown

Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that…

— Warren Buffett

When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the…

— Sophocles

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births…

— Milarepa

Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential... Whenever musicians…

— Howard Roberts

We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of…

— John Adams

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

— Anonymous

No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a…

— Otto Weininger

The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is,…

— K. Anders Ericsson