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Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task. -- John C. Maxwell
Acquiring knowledge doesn't bring power into your life, until you apply what you have learned. -- Shannon L. Alder
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. -- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wandas international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business. -- Wang Jianlin
Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda's international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business. -- Wang Jianlin
Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it -- Simon Barnes
Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty... If I seek to acquire these weapons, I am carrying out a duty. -- Osama bin Laden
Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life. -- Kofi Annan
To master an actual technique, mental culture should come first. Acquiring a technique requires a careful, modest, non-mean, free and attentive mind. In other words a player should do his utmost and nothing less. -- Kyuzo Mifune
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 that a writer who aspires to be successful can make. -- John Lescroart
Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art. -- Alma Gluck
Acquiring a blissful brain and in peace, is when i think positively, the sounds around and within me become music, my movement as one of a conscious dance, my smile breaking in to an infectious laughter, my mind transcending in meditation, and my life grows and becomes a celebration! -- Angie Karan Krezos
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. -- Eric Hoffer
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. -- Henry Mayhew
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. -- Ogden Nash
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. -- William Glasser
If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. -- William Glasser
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. -- David Hume
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. -- James Madison
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. -- Denis Diderot
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. -- Albert Camus
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time. -- Greg LeMond
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 writing at the University of Iowa. -- John Dalton
Jay-Z is as politically correct as some of the politicians. He's safe. There's points when you're acquiring financing, you make adjustments. He's made those adjustments. It's his choice. For me, it's not a necessity. -- Curtis Jackson
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. -- Alan Perlis
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action. -- John Yoo
The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others. -- Gordon W. Allport
I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood. -- Kevin Bacon
In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue. -- Saint Ignatius
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. -- Henry Mayhew
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. -- Benjamin Franklin
My mom worked at McDonald's, and she decided she wanted to make more money, so she got into the management program at McDonald's. And that's how you move up the chain. It's not by demanding that minimum wage is raised; it's by actually acquiring the skills. That's the way that people get ahead in life. -- Raul Labrador
Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom. -- Marshall Goldsmith
I was very adept at acquiring languages. -- Anna Held
We prepare for success by acquiring virtues. -- Ted Malloch
I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another -- John Ashbery
Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information. -- Muriel Lester
Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge. -- Ibn Khaldun
Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge ... -- Socrates
Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding. -- William Arthur Ward
The most reliable method for acquiring wealth is through giving. -- Sunday Adelaja
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power. -- Indira Gandhi
I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school -- Arno Allan Penzias
Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. -- Emile M. Cioran
What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all. -- Ann Radcliffe
Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge. -- Amit Kalantri
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. -- Albert Camus
People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading. -- Stephen D. Krashen
Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine. -- Gloria Steinem
The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. -- Benjamin Graham
In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours. -- Thucydides
Success isn't about acquiring things, it's about discovering your life purpose and following the call -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective. -- Paul Biya
Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner. -- Dervla Murphy
Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application. -- Edwin Louis Cole
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions. -- Susan Maushart
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired. -- Criss Jami
Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling. -- Peter F. Hamilton
Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings. -- D. A. Carson
The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement. -- Alphonsus Liguori
Forget about acquiring new people. If you service your audience they will get you new fans. -- Bob Lefsetz
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. -- William Glasser
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls. -- Francois Fenelon
I want to weigh less, not through diet and exercise, but by acquiring a faulty scale. -- Jarod Kintz
At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything. -- Mike Tyson
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. -- Walter Benjamin
Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last. -- H. Rider Haggard
Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill. -- Twyla Tharp
He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. -- Napoleon Hill
Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before. -- Stan Lee
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man. -- John Lancaster Spalding
We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts. -- Jacques Barzun
He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy. -- Chanakya
You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw. -- Arnold Bennett
There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge . -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them -- Ogden Nash
I'm really into acquiring film paraphernalia - that's my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels. -- Sarah Gadon
The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning, -- John Doerr
There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little. -- Jackie French Koller
President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. -- John O. Brennan
A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it. -- James Madison
[Yahya Khan] thought of nothing but acquiring beautiful cars, building beautiful homes, making friends with bankers, and sending money abroad. -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant. -- Stephen Cohen
Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow... -- Paul Gauguin
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet. -- Steve Jobs
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty. -- Bruce Lee
If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others. -- Confucius
Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security. -- Adolf Hitler
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name. -- Ariana Franklin
By acquiring Biovex, we're continuing the transformation of Amgen into a company that supports therapeutic oncology as well as supportive care oncology. -- Roger M. Perlmutter
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. -- Ernest Hemingway
Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true painters. -- Francesco Albani
Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it. -- John Wilbanks
From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results. -- James Madison
Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success. -- Ezra Taft Benson
There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy. -- Elizabeth Missing Sewell
But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs. -- Joseph Stiglitz
For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. -- Andre Maurois
It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws. -- Bertrand Russell
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
I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers. -- Garry Winogrand
Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. -- Mark Twain
Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day. -- Mark Twain
All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock. -- Charlie Munger
A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience. -- Brooke Waggoner

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