Acquisition Quotes
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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 things.
Lev Vygotsky -
They have created a culture of acquisition instead of innovation. It's a lot easier just to write big checks than it is to innovate.
Marc Benioff
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Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.
Kate Morton -
People reared in workhouses, as you are aware, are no great acquisition to the community and they have no ideas whatsoever of civic responsibilities. As a rule their highest aim is to live at the expense of the ratepayers. Consequently, it would be a decided gain if they all took it into their heads to emigrate. When they go abroad they are thrown on their own responsibilities and have to work whether they like it or not.
W. T. Cosgrave -
SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
Joanne Rowling -
The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
Michael Gove -
Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge...
Edgar Allan Poe
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Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.
Jerry Coleman -
The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were presented to them. Instead of endeavoring to redistribute the acquisitions which have been made between the existing classes, our aim should be to increase, multiply, and extend the chances.
William Graham Sumner -
On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.
Meriwether Lewis -
As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.
William Mathews -
Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
George S. Clason -
The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.
Dorrel Norman Elvert Herzog
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But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer acquisition is $1,000 or more.
Arthur Hughes -
The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.
Marcel Proust -
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
Seneca the Younger -
Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acquirement of knowledge of the previously unknown properties of a material suggests its trial for some new use. These facts strongly indicate the value of knowledge of properties of materials and indicate a way for research.
Willis R. Whitney -
And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.
Terence McKenna -
Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.
Charles Elachi
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With the acquisition of 50% of Todito, TV Azteca is getting on a very fast train. Todito will allow TV Azteca to create value for its shareholders and promote its television content on the Internet.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego -
I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.
Sandra Cisneros -
I mean look at all these acquisitions and mergers - WhatsApp and Oculus and et cetera. There's no way that you can envision these tech companies as the underdog anymore. They're always presented as though they were these little guys who you should be championing - Facebook will overthrow the cable television complex, blah blah - but it's more likely they will merge with them.
Astra Taylor