To Acquire Something Quotes

#1. I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that of others, to acquire something I might call universal compassion, and also a sense of responsibility, responsibility for the state of my conscience.

Zbigniew Herbert

#2. People destroy beauty when they find it. (Acheron)
How so? (Artemis)
By nature, people are petty and jealous. They envy what they lack and because they don't know how to acquire something, they try to destroy anyone who has it. Beauty is one of those things they hate most in others. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. Our way is not to sit to acquire something; it is to express our true nature. That is our practice.

Shunryu Suzuki

#4. The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

Quintilian

#5. Many Christians 'stall out' in the faith when the call to total commitment is received or viewed as something too high or too hard to acquire ... or they have never been taught that total commitment is Christ's demand for all His followers.

Chip Ingram

#6. To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#7. When you like something try to acquire it. Many times the cost of it is high. But the higher cost of not paying for it is to think about it for the rest of your journey.

Angelos Ioannis

#8. specific values to objects. When they have to give something up, they are hurt more than they are pleased if they acquire the very same thing.

Richard H. Thaler

#9. A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.

Joan Aiken

#10. The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something within them which demands expression ... Only a few truly love it.

Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

#11. The copywriter uses words as tools to persuade and motivate an audience. You persuade your readers that you have something valuable to offer; you motivate them to acquire it for themselves. This is the essence of effective copywriting.

Richard Bayan

#12. Every forest is a good library where you can find many books! Animals, trees, even rocks are the books of this mystic library! Read them to acquire their story! When you obtain the story of someone or something, you obtain their wisdom as well!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Well they have to have something to wean Caluntians off Venusian moles. Seems humans are the best therapy, to consume that is. They say we are a bit gamey though. An acquired taste, one we hope not many acquire.

Neil Leckman

#14. Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#15. Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have

Marianne Williamson

#16. Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

Bill Wyman

#17. Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day.

Seneca.

#18. When all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. Our inner Witch isn't something we acquire.
It's already within us. It's something we become ready and willing to experience. Something we
realize we ARE.

Dacha Avelin

#20. We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing.

Rebecca Solnit

#21. Becoming a Witch isn't something we acquire. The Witch is already within us. She is someone we become ready and willing to embrace. Someone we realize we ARE.

Dacha Avelin

#22. Men often become what they believe themselves to be.If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can , then I acquire the ability to do it even If I didn't have it in the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

Josh Billings

#24. Each day... acquire something which will help you to face poverty, or death, and other ills as well. After running over a lot of different thoughts, pick out one to be digested thoroughly that day.

Seneca.

#25. Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?

Lorraine Heath

#26. I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist ... as somebody who's trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That's the version of capitalism that we want.

Guy Spier

#27. I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

Lupita Nyong'o

#28. If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have to acquire yourself, through self-inquiry and the practice of meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#29. I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

Vince Cable

#30. It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

Stephen Hawking

#31. The harder something is to acquire, the more satisfying it is when you finally find it.

Wendy Mass