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Many cloud experts will not want to relocate, so remote employment will be a key to acquiring talent. — Michael J. Kavis

Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling. — Peter F. Hamilton

Lamenting the past is a waste of energy that we can turn into positive energy through work and acquiring skills. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

We all have regrets. Anyone who says they have none is a liar, and anyone who thinks they'll live without acquiring some is a fool. — Karen Amanda Hooper

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Its not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living — Anonymous

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true painters. — Francesco Albani

Despise (viradhana) of a Gnani [the enlightened one] creates hindrance in (acquiring right) Knowledge-Vision-Conduct (Gnan-Darshan-Charitra). — Dada Bhagwan

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man. — John Lancaster Spalding

Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty. — Edwin Percy Whipple

From my Facebook Page: You spend the first 50 years acquiring and the second 50 years getting rid of — Mary R. Woldering

The most reliable method for acquiring wealth is through giving. — Sunday Adelaja

Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before. — Stan Lee

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. — Henry Mayhew

To be focused on acquiring material things is to forfeit blessings associated with eternal reward — Sunday Adelaja

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power. — Indira Gandhi

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I was very adept at acquiring languages. — Anna Held

Knowledge is the key to the development of civilization. — Eraldo Banovac

Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security. — Adolf Hitler

Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information. — Muriel Lester

President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. — John O. Brennan

Those who have no knowledge are often willing to occupy influential positions with the aim of acquiring every possible benefit. — Eraldo Banovac

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls. — Francois Fenelon

Mentoring means not only acquiring knowledge but also learning how to practically apply that knowledge in life. — Sunday Adelaja

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding. — William Arthur Ward

He was not imitating me; he had become me, in a sense; it was like suddenly acquiring a younger twin. — Oliver Sacks

Acquiring true wisdom is always a greater burden than transient pain. — Bill Willingham

I am not in the position to sacrifice the essentials of life in the hope of acquiring the luxuries. -Pushkin — Alexander Pushkin

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws. — Bertrand Russell

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill. — Twyla Tharp

Wisdom is not increased by acquiring more information, but by increasing the capacity of seeing. — Belsebuub

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement. — Alphonsus Liguori

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last. — H. Rider Haggard

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
- Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library — Phillip Lopate

They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life. — Ignatius Of Loyola

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening. — Richard Branson

Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge ... — Socrates

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application. — Edwin Louis Cole

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. — Mark Twain

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little. — Jackie French Koller

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions. — Susan Maushart

Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money. — Robert A. Heinlein

So what is the solution to acquiring confidence? It's simple. Conquer fear. — Ashwin Sanghi

Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name. — Ariana Franklin

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. — David O. McKay

Regardless of one's age, acquiring new knowledge has always been useful. — Eraldo Banovac

Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it — Simon Barnes

We prepare for success by acquiring virtues. — Ted Malloch

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. — Emile M. Cioran

Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won't you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat? — Leigh Bardugo

What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all. — Ann Radcliffe

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. — William Glasser

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. — Andre Maurois

Eric once chatted with Warren Buffett about what he looks for when acquiring companies. His answer was: a leader who doesn't need him. — Eric Schmidt

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it. — John Wilbanks

Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything new. — David R. Hawkins

Then the pernicious charm of Italy worked on her, and, instead of acquiring information, she began to be happy. — E. M. Forster

Life is not only about acquiring knowledge, it is about applying knowledge. — Amit Kalantri

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom. — Marshall Goldsmith

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book. — Charles Caleb Colton

The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant. — Stephen Cohen

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner. — Dervla Murphy

After recently acquiring a position as a seamstress at Damsels in Dis Dress, — Lorraine Heath

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge. — Ibn Khaldun

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet. — Steve Jobs

Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda's international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business. — Wang Jianlin

I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school — Arno Allan Penzias

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine. — Gloria Steinem

Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings. — D. A. Carson

We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. — William Glasser

True learning only occurs when you love the subject you are studying and then the acquiring of knowledge is effortless because it is also a pleasure. — William Boyd

A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience. — Brooke Waggoner

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. — W. Somerset Maugham

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. — Eric Hoffer

I am not gadgety at all. It's not that I'm appalled by technology, but I've taken my time acquiring any of it. — Rhys Ifans

Health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy. — Elizabeth Missing Sewell

I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another — John Ashbery

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure. — Aleister Crowley

'Plenty of men are good at acquiring money and cars and things, but only a few have real forward motion. You know. Thrust.' — Vicki Pettersson

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything. — Mike Tyson

Technically, the better McDonald's does, the better Virgin Active's chances of acquiring a new client. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge . — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy. — Chanakya

For women in this era, it seemed that marriage was the easiest way of acquiring the basic freedoms of adulthood. Things — Aziz Ansari

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Forget about acquiring new people. If you service your audience they will get you new fans. — Bob Lefsetz

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it. — James Madison

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty. — Bruce Lee

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

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day. — Mark Twain

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning, — John Doerr