Acquire Quotes

• In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Literature
  • Ambition
  • Novice

• So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

  

  Andrew Delbanco
  • College
  • Bullshit
  • Acquire

• I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

  

  Michael Nyman
  • Musician
  • Scratches
  • Inventors

• And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or not blamed; but when they cannot, and wish to do it anyway, here lies the error and the blame.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Desire
  • Thing
  • Acquire

• Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • May
  • Government
  • Ideas

• Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • People
  • World
  • Earth

• For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Intelligent
  • Perseverance
  • Acquire

• It took less time to build 'Instagram' than it did for me to get my work visa. The app was an instant hit, and Facebook agreed to acquire the startup for about $1 billion in April 2012.

  

  Mike Krieger
  • About
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

• You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Skills
  • Acquire

• I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.

  

  Roland Emmerich
  • Everything
  • Rights
  • Checked

• We must acquire the faith to accept the fact that all knowledge is from God and known to God. Knowledge is released to man on earth according to God's plan for him. Free or liberal thinking does not change truth, the revealed knowledge which comes from God.

  

  Delbert L. Stapley
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Change

• All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.

  

  Charlotte Moss
  • Design
  • Should
  • Rooms

• One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

  

  George Washington
  • Party
  • Opinion
  • Influence

• Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

  

  Milarepa
  • Meditation
  • Ashamed
  • Uncertain

• You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Modesty
  • Acquire
  • Preserve

• If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire a reed made of lightening but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Night
  • Imagine
  • Made

• Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.

  

  William Benton Clulow
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Regret

• The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

  

  William Fleming
  • Imagination
  • Memories
  • Perception

• All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgement of time.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Achievement
  • Perception
  • Achieve

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