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Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
Bayer's planned acquisition of Monsanto promises to increase concentration in both the seed and agrochemical markets.
Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.
The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders.
A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.
M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations.
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.
I love using a targeted acquisition approach in conjunction with a business that has a clear strategy and strong organic growth.
The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.
I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.
An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.
As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.
I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.
When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.
The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
If an acquisition can speed a process or fill a gap, we'll jump right to that. It's about timing, need... it's not necessarily an algorithm.
Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.
Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.
The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
Don't you know what marriage means in this world? They are mergers and acquisitions disguised as marriages. In other words, the takeover syndromes.
The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.
I certainly don't think we're past the point in history where a woman's physical appearance may play some part in job availability or job acquisition.
The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity.
The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.
Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.
Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.
If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education and skills acquisition.
A buyback is itself a special kind of acquisition, made at prices that are typically a bargain compared with those a company must pay for an outside purchase.
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.
Our mantra has been, 'We will not buy a company unless we think the people that make up the company have a better job the day after the acquisition than before.'
But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer acquisition is $1,000 or more.
In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.
Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.
I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school.
One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.
GPS's battery draining behavior is most noticeable during the initial acquisition of the satellite's navigation message: the satellite's state, ephemeris, and almanac.
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.
Other men have created FTSE 100 companies. But I believe no man has done this in his lifetime without acquisition or borrowing. My one regret is handing over the reigns.
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
The Ranbaxy acquisition doesn't preclude us from making more large acquisitions. The important issue is whether we have the management bandwidth to handle the acquisition.