Acquired Quotes

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

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.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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.

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.

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 ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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

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.

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

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

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.