Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just… — Peter Morville Copy Share Image
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new… — William James Copy Share Image
That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future… — John Moody Copy Share Image
“A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I'm not looking to take this money and go do a bunch of things with it immediately. We will continue looking at… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
What's been unique about our acquisition is that Google is leaving us independent. That actually means that the company is structured the… — Noam Bardin Copy Share Image
If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
If, in each hour, a man could learn a single fragment of some branch of knowledge, a single rule of some mechanical… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As adults, if our top priorities are constantly directed toward the acquisition of more and better worldly goods, it will not take… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services has created… — Lloyd Dorfman Copy Share Image
A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree… Whereas when buildings are of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought;… — Anne Sullivan Macy Copy Share Image
Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
WhatsApp is both disrupting and demonetizing the entire wireless industry, and now the Facebook acquisition provides the infrastructure needed for WhatsApp to… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
In my world, historical revenue is the least interesting thing to consider in an acquisition strategy. The goal is to acquire technology… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly: but, it is an art of much greater and more… — Philippe Pinel Copy Share Image
Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information;… — Frank P. Ramsey Copy Share Image
The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
In my view, until the U.S. tax policy is revised, not just tax extenders but the reform of tax policy, it makes… — Louis R. Chenevert Copy Share Image
When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed… — Anna Seward Copy Share Image
“It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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