The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity... — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“IT is the business’s competitive differentiator to customer acquisition and retention.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition. — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
What is the nature of the genetic endowment? How does acquisition proceed? Etc. Scientists do routinely ask similar questions about the visual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits,… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Then something fails and they're all out again, but DVD revenue is disappearing, you know, it's not disappearing but it's going off… — Eric Fellner Copy Share Image
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr Copy Share Image
I mean look at all these acquisitions and mergers - WhatsApp and Oculus and et cetera. There's no way that you can… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
If an acquisition can speed a process or fill a gap, we'll jump right to that. It's about timing, need... it's not… — Peggy Johnson Copy Share Image
Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“He had no idea who bought his books, how they acquired the money to buy them. Perhaps they were saints, perhaps they… — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
“So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.” — Paul Bamikole Copy Share Image
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia. — Jerry Coleman Copy Share Image
There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching… — Solomon Ibn Gabirol Copy Share Image
. . . Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth. — Eric Linklater Copy Share Image
