Acquisition Quotes - Page 6

• A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

  Max Planck

  Scientist, Attainment, Steady

  Max Planck (1936). “The Philosophy of Physics”, New York : W. W. Norton, Incorporated

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• I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Country, Art, Sorry

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• People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.

  John Moody

  California, People, Development

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society; to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates.

  John Adams

  Land, Balance, Liberty

  John Adams, Frederick K. Sanders (1975). “John Adams Speaking: Pound's Sources for the Adams Cantos”

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• Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

  Susan George

  Mergers, Investment, Downsizing

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• An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Arrows, Unjust, Injustice

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• Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I’ve seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.

  Scott Adams

  People, Stupidity, Mind

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.164, Penguin

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• Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic amid inner turmoil, run on an upward trajectory of success and money acquisition at any emotional cost. But these are not rules.

  Martha Beck

  Running, Monday, Passion

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• Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

  Sai Baba

  Spring, Educational, Men

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• To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Mind, Naked

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• As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

  Kara Swisher

  Way, Interest, Company

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• Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.

  Helen and Scott Nearing

  Effort, Life Is, Accumulation

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• Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

  Philip James Bailey

  Harvest, Application, Seeds

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• All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

  Socrates

  War, Vegan, Wealth

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• Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part, is a detailed account of things that never occurred. It is useless to fill the individual with dates of great battles, with the births and deaths of kings. They should be taught the philosophy of history, the growth of nations, of philosophies, theories, and, above all, of the sciences.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Kings, Philosophy, Years

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• For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean.  As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it.  That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.  When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water.  We call this the moment of death.  That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.

  Bill Viola

  Ocean, Moving, Water

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• Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Success, Real, Lying

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• In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, still shines in our hearts with the inextinguishable light of Christ ... and when the sinner turns to the way of repentance the light smooths away every trace of the sins committed, clothing the former sinner in the garments of incorruption, spun of the Grace of the Holy Spirit. It is this acquisition of the Holy Spirit about which I have been speaking.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Father, Heart

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• Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities... If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mean, Maturity, Men

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud (Lecture 35 "A Philosophy of Life"), 1933.

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• A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.

  Erich Fromm

  Character, Simple, Order

  Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have or To Be?”, p.131, Open Road Media

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• Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

  Ramana Maharshi

  Camouflage, Faculty, Realisation

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.

  Annie Lennox

  Winning, Too Much, Prize

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• The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.

  K. Anders Ericsson

  Practice, Differences, Long

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

  William James

  Life, Success, Strong

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• I have nothing but scorn for the notion of an Islamic bomb. There is no such thing as an Islamic bomb or a Christian bomb. Any such weapon is a means of terrorizing humanity, and we are against the manufacture and acquisition of nuclear weapons. This is in line with our definition of - and opposition to - terrorism.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Christian, Islamic, Mean

  TIME Interview, content.time.com. June 8, 1981.

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