#acquired

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. ↗

— Tori Amos

#acquired taste #everybody #hairy #i #know

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

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#art #come #emotion #into #measure

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#adapt #exert #first #freedom #fruitful

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

#aesthetic #alienated #being #clear #consciousness

Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well. ↗

— Janos Kadar

#compatriots #earn #honour #only #other

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. ↗

— Sidney Lanier

#acquired #endeavor #rests #through #upon

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. ↗

— Yeardley Smith

#acquired #dead #disney #hallmark #homogenized

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth. ↗

— Albert Claude

#birth #cell #entered #inventory #mansion

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#else #mind #quality #someone #taste