Greed is a strange, strange sin. All you want to do is acquire. Acquire money, acquire material, acquire time, acquire energy, acquire attention. The running mantra is “I want, I want, I want” but that quickly turns to “I need, I need, I need.�...
Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacity." Banish the fear-attitude; acquire the confident attitude. And remember that the only way to acquire it is—to acquire it.
Reality is an acquired taste.
Truth is an acquired taste.
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
I am an acquired taste.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acq...
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
I am an acquired taste. Do with that what you will.
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them.
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Knowledge acquired as a child is more lasting than an engraving on stone.
Only through suffering and sorrow do we acquire the wisdom not found in books.
The North Koreas of the world are trying very hard to acquire the material they need to acquire nuclear weapons, as is the case with Iran.
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.
