#acquiring

I was very adept at acquiring languages. ↗

— Anna Held

#adept #i #languages #very

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#acquiring #humanity #reasons #right #wrong

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

#affluent #educational #educational opportunities #families #goal

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#inductive #knowledge #method #mode #using

Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual. ↗

— Richard M. Helms

#agency #case #cases #contact #follow

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. ↗

— John Dalton

#day-to-day #discipline #fiction #fiction writing #highly

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#art #days #devote #energies #himself