#acquire

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself. ↗

— Burleigh Grimes

#confidence #himself #his #oldest #pitcher

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

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

— Sidney Lanier

#acquired #endeavor #rests #through #upon

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

— Ernst Lubitsch

#finest #hollywood #leather #novels #order

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired. ↗

— Marc Maron

#acquired taste #always #been #handful #i

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#beginnings #conveniently #culture #dated #first

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school. ↗

— William Glasser

#ever #going #knowledge #lot #school

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#act #bring #civilization #destroy #development

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour. ↗

— Henri Rousseau

#cannot #change #dint #i #imagine