Quotes About Acquisition

The sudden acquisition of power does not go to the head, but to the groin. In some, it promotes lust; in others, supplants it. Those on whom its effect is purely cerebral may indeed be counted as fortunate.

The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a controlling interest in the good writing.

Enemies are like furniture, aren't they? Better chosen for oneself than inherited.

Men are greedy, aren't they? No gratitude. They don't think about what they've already got from you, only about what they can get next.

Buyers of anything are looking for value. They are looking for a way to solve problems or create opportunities. No matter what the buyer says, price is never the only consideration. Value always has and always will be the primary buying factor.

Absorbing knowledge (knowing) and then gaining practical experience by applying what you learned until a particular skill became ingrained in you (knowing how) is probably how you acquired most of the abilities that now feel like a part of your being (knowingness). In much the same way, learning how to change your life involves knowledge and the application of that knowledge.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.

Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

I already have a toothbrush. I don't know why she would buy me another. That woman buys things just to buy things. It's disgusting.

For the old people in my family (...) the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know.

He loved poetry--science was merely an acquisition, which he laid aside when unobserved like his European dress...

Today, there are three kinds of people: the have's, the have-not's, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have's.

What we live with, we learn. What we learn, we practice. What we practice, we become.

One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly.

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.

To enjoy something fully, you had to own it. And if you couldn't buy it, then you would have to steal it.

People simply shouldn't buy puppies without a breeding certificate.