Acquiring Quotes

210 quotes by 180 authors

My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be… — Lincoln Child
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. — Emile M. Cioran
We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts. — Jacques Barzun
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is… — Primo Levi
Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to foreigners; a farm… — Mary McCarthy
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. — Walter Benjamin
Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move… — John Lescroart
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired. — Criss Jami
It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living. — Ernest Wood
What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I think you should use whatever power you have to try to help people who need your help. Then we'd all be happy. Instead there's… — Clive Stafford Smith
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information,… — Charles Bass
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction… — John Dalton
Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or her well-being. Not… — Peter Dickens
I was very adept at acquiring languages. — Anna Held
My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income...passive… — Robert Kiyosaki
The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On… — John Quincy Adams

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