Acquisition Quotes - Page 2

• Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Book, Healing, Good Friend

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• We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services.

  John B. Larson

  Successful, Order, Marketing

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• The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.

  Charles Bass

  Military, Past, Technology

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• A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

  Anna Seward

  Attention, Language, Study

  Anna Seward (1810). “The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence”, p.13

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• Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

  Jean Piaget

  Accommodations, Assimilation, Materials

  Jean Piaget (2013). “The Construction Of Reality In The Child”, p.353, Routledge

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• I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

  Edward Zwick

  Country, Children, Sapphires

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish.

  Stephen Cambone

  War, Years, People

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• One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

  Gautama Buddha

  Humility, Pride, Solitude

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• Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.

  Alan Cohen

  Simple, Numbers, Recognition

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• Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, Sex, Philosophical

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• The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Appreciation, Facts, Instinct

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.111, Random House

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• An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.

  Publilius Syrus

  Loss, Ends

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• So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.

  Havelock Ellis

  Country, War, Successful

  Arthur William Allen, Carl Schurz, Joseph Hodges Choate, Noel Noel-Buxton Baron Noel-Buxton, Philip Snowden Snowden (Viscount) (1913). “President Wilson on the United States and Latin America: Address Before the Southern Commercial Congress at Mobile, Alabama, October 27, 1913”

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• The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.

  William Godwin

  Boys, Men, Independence

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• The development of our spiritual nature should concern us most. Spirituality is the highest acquisition of the soul, the divine in man; 'the supreme, crowning gift that makes him king of all created things.' It is the consciousness of victory over self and of communion with the infinite. It is spirituality alone which really gives one the best in life.

  David O. McKay

  Spiritual, Kings, Men

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• SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Acronyms, Common

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• Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Being Thankful, World, Information

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 29 May 1988

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• In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Politics, Politician, Middle

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “Tailor blood and other notes and comments”

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• 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 almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• 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 to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

  Charles Lamb

  Knowledge, Men, May

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.64

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• If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in it with the known. If it be inhuman, make it figure as part of a story. If it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long.

  William James

  Running, Couple, Educational

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of trigonometry, the facts of history, the properties of material things, are all known to us as definite systems or groups of objects which cohere in an order fixed by innumerable iterations, and of which any one part reminds us of the others.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Order

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

  Marcel Proust

  Beauty, Loss, Add

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.965, Jester House Publishing

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• The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

  Ernst Mach

  Race, Doe, Development

  Ernst Mach (2013). “The Science of Mechanics”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning? The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so muchasa boardofdirectors, never minda mergers-and- acquisitions department. There is a paradoxical lesson here for strategists. In economic terms, the great corporations are acting like socialist planners, while old- fashioned free-market capitalism blossoms at their feet.

  James Gleick

  Taken, Feet, Acting

  1994 In the NewYork Times Magazine, 1 May

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