There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.
Samuel Wilson

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.
Mark Akenside

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian Tracy

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand Russell

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
Tarja Halonen

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.
John Pearson

We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
Sam Ewing

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
William Glasser

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Aldous Huxley