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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.


Henry Bessemer


#amateur #commercial #disadvantage #enthusiasm #fast

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.


Mason Cooley


#habit #hard #success #success is

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.


Jared Diamond


#africa #although #domestic #domesticated #ethiopia

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.


Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau


#already #america #anyone #attention #course

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.


Robert Bresson


#brilliance #images #into #most #must

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.


Charles Krauthammer


#allowing #believe #correct #grow #happen

But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.


Ron Jaworski


#bowl #get #guy #i #i think

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.


Gertrude Jekyll


#alone #also #arrangement #decorative #gain

It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a lot of work, and you can't make light of that.


Michael King


#definitely #going #harder #light #lot

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.


Ernst Lubitsch


#finest #hollywood #leather #novels #order






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