Quotes About Acquisition

I felt I was owned by possessions.

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.

I especially like to collect contemporary art.

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

You know that bank I used to cry all the way to? I bought it.

The first game I actually bought myself with my own money was 'The Bard's Tale.'

A secret talent or hobby... Hmm... I weirdly collect shot glasses.

First, buy things for their usefulness rather than their status.

A prelingual hearing loss occurs prior to the development of speech and language while a postlingual impairment refers to a hearing loss manifesting itself after the acquisition of speech and language.

We hire for learnability—we deliberately select people for their capacity to learn new things.

lady who took it out once a year at the most. A terrific bargain.

property' is not the natural and obvious concept that most people think it is.

Power is essentially amoral and one of the most important skills to acquire is the ability to see circumstances rather than good or evil.

Drew was the market's first major speculator to venture inside business. Instead of just buying and selling stock as a speculator, he was the first of what we today would see as takeover artists, using the stock market as a way to acquire controlling interests in businesses, then get inside them and alter their destiny.

Labor, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property for B. —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for wealth, increases by acquisition, but as Bishop Lee has told us, "Knowledge without common sense is folly; without method it is waste; without kindness it is fanaticism; without religion it is death." But, Dean Farrar added: "With common sense, it is wisdom; with method it is power; with charity beneficence; with religion it is virtue, life, and peace.

Surely, I thought, we do not deserve even a little happiness. Or perhaps we had acquired the bad habit of regarding even a little happiness as a big favor, which we would have to repay.

European imperialists set out to distant shores in the hope of obtaining new knowledge along with new territories.

El dinero es así un medio universal de intercambio que permite a la gente convertir casi todo en casi cualquier cosa.

Nothing is good enough; we must know and have it all."