Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out. — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it. — Benjamin Netanyahu 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
Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient. — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
The earlier days of the republic went into the acquisition of money and the provision for material things is now finding an… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one,… — John Cage Copy Share Image
One thing I fail to understand in Delhi is how the same parties which as State Governments seek amendments to the Land… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Americans make money by playing 'money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The Internet has been an invaluable acquisition. I wonder how we would do without it. Information can be sent from one country… — Tariq Ali 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 inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world – no matter how his affairs may prosper.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
People reared in workhouses, as you are aware, are no great acquisition to the community and they have no ideas whatsoever of… — W. T. Cosgrave Copy Share Image
The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession… Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part… — Max Weber 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
No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war. — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Many technology companies prioritize acquisition targets based on how well they are integrated with their existing API.” — Sangeet Paul Choudary Copy Share Image
“IT is the business’s competitive differentiator to customer acquisition and retention.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“But any acquisition that doesn't correspond to the labour expended is dishonest” — Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition. — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image