| John Naisbitt |  In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
John Naisbitt |
| John Pearson | Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.
John Pearson |
| Jose Canseco | Did I put them in contact with the people to acquire them? Yes. Did I educate them on how to use them properly, and what way, shape, or form, and when, and with what supplements? Yes. Absolutely.
Jose Canseco |
| Joseph Pulitzer | I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.
Joseph Pulitzer |
| Juan Goytisolo | For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing.
Juan Goytisolo |
| Laurence Sterne | For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Laurence Sterne |
| Lech Walesa | I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
Lech Walesa |
| Leland Stanford | Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
Leland Stanford |
| Maria Montessori | The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Maria Montessori |
| Marilyn vos Savant | To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant |
| Mark Akenside | This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.
Mark Akenside |
| Mason Cooley | If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
Mason Cooley |
| Michael King | It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a lot of work, and you can't make light of that.
Michael King |
| Mohamed ElBaradei | Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons.
Mohamed ElBaradei |
| Nathaniel Branden | Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
Nathaniel Branden |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli |
| opinions | Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.
Robert G. Allen
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| particular | Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle
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| Peter Latham | Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
Peter Latham |
| property | It threw out technical arguments by the tobacco companies that the government was trying to "acquire" their intellectual property rights by removing logos. |
