Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings. — Paul Keres Copy Share Image
The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is… — Kim Jong Il Copy Share Image
What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace require that all-whether those governments which openly… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge. In the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Acquire and store a reserve of food and supplies that will sustain life. ... As long as I can remember, we have… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range… — Samuel Wilson Copy Share Image
It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a… — Michael King Copy Share Image
I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course… — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
Incapable of conjuring up any facial expression that she did not learn from watching television, Jessica Alba plays a brilliant scientist who… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
