Acquisition Quotes

229 quotes by 204 authors

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her… — Jane Austen
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen… — John Cage
The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in… — J. G. Holland
All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting. — Robert Bunsen
The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances.… — Peter Drucker
The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility… — J. William Fulbright
Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of… — William James
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if… — William James
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of… — Lev S. Vygotsky
The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and… — Seraphim of Sarov
The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition. — Marcel Proust
A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready… — Charles Lamb
In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament. — Frank Moore Colby
Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness. — Alan Cohen
Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and… — Gerald Brenan
Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is… — Fulton J. Sheen
We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying… — Samuel Johnson

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