Quotes About Acquisition

Counselees continually confuse learned behavior patterns with inherited nature (phusis). Counselors may take it as a rule that any quality of life, attitude of mind, or activity that God requires of man may be acquired through the Lord Jesus Christ.

first law. In every animal… a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ… while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.second law. All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature in individuals… are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise.

I collect art. That's my weakness. I keep saying, "We've got to put a moratorium on it, we don't have room," but I keep buying it.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

We are intelligent not because we can do one thing particularly well, but because we can learn to do practically anything.

The fingers of the attacker feel what will soon belong to his whole body.

We've got an acquisitive gene. We want and want, and there's no way around it.

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.

If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.

People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.

I hope to continue acquiring companies, not so much for the accumulation of wealth but because it's what I do well, and you always like to do what you do well.

I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.

We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.

But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons.

I've been fascinated with all kinds of weapons my whole life, and as I have been able to afford to acquire pieces, here and there I started to collect.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

When I first came into money, I bought six or seven homes. One weekend I went to Miami and bought an apartment and a mansion several blocks from each other, which was not that bright!

The WWE is fine. They can afford to not only sign anybody they really want, but they can also afford to sign people just to keep them out of the talent pool that everybody else has.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.