Acquire Quotes

When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.

Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

I will always prefer a hardback book, but I'm drawn to digital because it's so easy to acquire them when I'm having a need-to-read moment.

Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually.

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the whole, is complete and entire.

It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.

In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it.

There are two ways to be rich: 1. Acquire great wealth 2. Acquire few needs.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.

In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension.

If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have to acquire yourself, through self-inquiry and the practice of meditation.

[Should] Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.

When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them.

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.

To a normal person, $10 million will seem like enough. But anyone who thinks that's enough is not the type that can acquire that much in the first place.

Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.

Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse.

That's the most comfortable place for me. In the beginning, yes, I was nervous going on stage. I was not a natural performer. I really had to acquire that skill.

Saddam Hussein is not the only deranged dictator who is willing to deprive his people in order to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.

In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.

Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.

I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.

It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from their sensuously varied objectivity as articles of utility.

It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness.

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.