Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.” — George Washington Copy Share Image
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth; we understand with… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich… — Philip E. Agre Copy Share Image
Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never… — John Stott Copy Share Image
If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
In the constitution of Spain as proposed by the late Cortes, there was a principle entirely new to me:... that no person… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing"… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Simple people have much to offer. We, too, in return, must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must,… — Simin Daneshvar Copy Share Image
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can… — Peter Latham Copy Share Image
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My primary job is to choose the programs, either to co-produce them, or acquire them after they're finished. So, I read a… — Rebecca Eaton Copy Share Image
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something… — Edmond Bordeaux Szekely Copy Share Image
Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You… — Bill Wyman Copy Share Image
Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
