Acquisition Quotes - Page 5

• Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and
  approval.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self Esteem, Approval, Self

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Everyday Wisdom for Success (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which contribute to the comfort and gratification of his physical instincts and passions, or whether he will make as his life's end and purpose the acquisition of spiritual qualities

  David O. McKay

  Spiritual, Passion, Men

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• Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes to show that librarians were destined to rule the Web.

  Peter Morville

  Book, Pennsylvania, Amazon

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• Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

  Jean Berko Gleason

  Evolution, Language, Literacy

  "Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. November 3, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.

  Meg Whitman

  Country, Ebay, Ideas

  Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. January 24, 2008.

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• When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Heart, Thinking

  John Flavel (2017). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.127, Lulu.com

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• We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to our domain in that incessant contest with nature which means life. But we are decadent heirs if we cannot use the instruments that the ages have put into our hands. The acquisition of these, in the largest scope, is education.

  Arthur Lynch

  Education, Mean, Hands

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

  Socrates

  War, Greed, Desire

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• Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignorant enough and hypocritical enough to hold in high esteem the man of wealth without the slightest regard to the character of the man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Money, Character, Men

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures".

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• All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

  Socrates

  War, Vegan, Wealth

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• We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions

  Richard I of England

  God Love, Honour, Regions

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• In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Couple, Order

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• Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Done, Strategy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which not. But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited.

  Carl Sagan

  Exercise, Technology, Wish

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.245, Ballantine Books

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• If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors.

  Michael Parenti

  Running, Gun, Government

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