The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

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

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its…

— Thomas Paine

Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his…

— Anonymous

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend,…

— Naomi Wolf