In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Life isn't a store where you just go in and be like 'Oh, Ima get that.' It's a process. Especially if you… — Omarion Copy Share Image
Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more… — Mike Aquilina Copy Share Image
“There is nothing wrong with thinking of ways to acquire wealth, get richer, and move up in the world. We should always… — Dr Prem Jagyasi Copy Share Image
Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and… — Eddie Reese Copy Share Image
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Classic was Jimmy Savile’s use of the cloak of authority and kindness. Savile’s celebrity allowed him to acquire this authority. As we… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary,… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are… — Harlan Mills Copy Share Image
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Today we can establish Sharia law because our nation will acquire well-being only with Islam and Sharia. The Muslim Brothers and the… — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance. — Umar Copy Share Image
I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
We do know, with absolute certainty, that [Saddam] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of… — Hermann Adler Copy Share Image
The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires… — Joseph C Zinker Copy Share Image
Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life. — Spiros Zodhiates Copy Share Image
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70. — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Eddie Murphy is just so off-the-cuff and can make anything funny. You hope that someday you'll acquire that skill, but maybe you're… — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image