Acquisition Quotes - Page 13

• Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pride, Men, Discovery

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler”, p.211

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• Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Years, Soul, Progress

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Men, Wealth

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a world that tells us that there are only two important things. One is the acquisition of goods and the other is either the acquisition or avoidance of sex, but it turns out that the question of who's a virgin and who's a virgout is not the most interesting question.

  John Green

  Sex, Two, Interesting

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• Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Happiness, Skills, Moments

  Barbara De Angelis (2013). “Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness”, p.26, Dell

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• A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Degrees, Ornaments

  Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.162

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• For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their basic human needs - not only for love but for creative and spiritual expression - they will try to compensate for this in other ways, including the compulsive acquisition of ever more material goods.

  Riane Eisler

  Spiritual, Loss, Expression

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• In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a man of knowledge. With what pathetic trust does he recite his facts! He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a great many small things.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Average, Doe

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused on the health of the planet and the poor than on material acquisitions and military might. While it is a fundamentally new endeavor, with many uncertainties, it is far less risky than continuing with business as usual.

  Lester R. Brown

  Military, Order, Environmental

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• Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.

  Macarius of Egypt

  Christian, Blessing, Toil

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• In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

  William James

  Strong, Leaving, Care

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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• M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations.

  Sam Altman

  Fun, Killers, Negotiation

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• My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Real, Moving, Goal

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Sight, Littles

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• I am also involved with all the acquisitions and overall strategy. Now it's true, I don't run operations. But I've never really run operations. I've never had the endurance to run sales. The whole idea of selling to the customer just isn't my personality. I'm an engineer, tell me why something isn't working or is and I am curious.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Running, Ideas

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• Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.

  Akio Morita

  Moving, Games, Creating

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• I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Communication, Teaching, Purpose

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• 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

  Men, Class, Degrees

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.144, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable. To my mind, the plausibility of internalist views about justification is dramatically decreased when one becomes vividly aware of what introspection and reflection actually achieve.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Reflection, Views, Worry

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.

  Max Weber

  Artist, Soldier, Gains

  1904-5 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (translated by Talcott Parsons,1930).

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• Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Lying, Generosity, Giving

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.19

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• Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Knowledge, Self, Confusion

  "Education and the Significance of Life". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1953.

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• Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Men, New Experiences

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.

  George Washington

  Attitude, War, Government

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.11

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• It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly: but, it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to know when to suspend or altogether to omit them.

  Philippe Pinel

  Art, Medicine, Littles

  Philippe Pinel (1806). “A Treatise on Insanity: In which are Contained the Principles of a New and More Practical Nosology of Maniacal Disorders Than Has Yet Been Offered to the Public ...”, p.10

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