Top 885 Acquired Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I have acquired many wonderful principles from my family, and I intend to follow these for the rest of my life.

In England, I have acquired more tactical knowledge and improved the speed of my decision making.

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.

I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce.

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.

"I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men".

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

I had acquired the skills to sail a ship; I didn't acquire the knowledge.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.

I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.

A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.

I was very proud of my time in Kansas City. I thought we acquired a heck of a roster.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.

An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

Mexico has acquired unique experience during its integration into global value chains, especially in the automotive industry.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!

Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved.

The Champions League is made up of cycles and experience to be acquired.

The Dabo people are consumer marketing geniuses. This is exactly why we acquired them.

We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.

The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They tend to show up in the same areas: music, art, math, visual, spatial skills, and calendar calculating, although calendar calculating probably isn't quite as prominent in that group. They tend to show up quite quickly, or sort of explode on the scene and they then tend to have an obsessive sort of forceful quality about them in the same way as savant skills. So they tend to show up in the same ways.

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.