#acquire

There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#also #because #bit #characters #depth

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#against #digitally #i #image #inferior

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. ↗

— William Osler

#art #brief #difficult #language #men

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#efforts #encourage #endeavor #others #own

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#art #chance #gives #keep #removes

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

#birth #carry #common #death #die

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. ↗

— Plato

#compulsion #hold #knowledge #mind #obtains

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. ↗

— Plautus

#age #capacity #wisdom

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired. ↗

— Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

#gold #greater #hunger #made #more

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. ↗