Acquired Quotes

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.

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

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.

I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

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

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.