A Quote by Tom Robbins

There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume. The one was trying to acquire the courage of the king of beasts, the other is attempting to acquire the irresistible sexuality of flowers. The underlying principle is the same.

Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins
American - Novelist
Born: July 22, 1936

But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

Condoleezza Rice

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.

Walter Dill Scott

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Maria Montessori

Contrology (Pilates) is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit. Through Contrology you first purposefully acquire complete control of your own body and then through proper repetition of its exercises you gradually and progressively acquire that natural rhythm and coordination associated with all your subconscious activities.

Joseph Pilates

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

Maria Montessori

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two ways to be rich: 1. Acquire great wealth 2. Acquire few needs.

Doris Janzen Longacre

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

Jim Rohn

If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.

Epictetus

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

Chogyam Trungpa

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 acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language.

Tim Ferriss

A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

Jack Hanna

What you want to acquire, you should dare to acquire by any means. What you want to see, even though it is with difficulty, you should see. You should not let it pass, thinking there will be another chance to see it or acquire it. It is quite unusual to have a second chance to materialize your desire.

Yosa Buson

In every man and in every animal, however weak or wicked, great or small, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in the soul, but in the manifestation. Between me and the smallest animal, the difference is only in manifestation, but as a principle he is the same as I am, he is my brother, he has the same soul as I have. This is the greatest principle that India has preached.

Swami Vivekananda

I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.

Alan Kay

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