Quotes About Acquiring Things

#1. It dawned on me that my world was defined by accumulation, by the gratification of acquiring things, of seeing numbers go up and up again.

Leon Logothetis

#2. How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

Clarice Lispector

#3. At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything.

Mike Tyson

#4. You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.

Lauren Bacall

#5. I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and the notion of building your happiness from the outside-in by acquiring things ... which if you think about it, is the essence of advertising

Edward Norton

#6. Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

Ezra Taft Benson

#7. If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that sort of a world, because family involves values like affection, and sympathy, and passion, and types of pleasure that lead nowhere in a material sense.

John Taylor Gatto

#8. Success isn't about acquiring things, it's about discovering your life purpose and following the call

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. I am obsessed with not being obsessed with acquiring material things.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#10. The profound realization, thanks to the practice of Stoicism, that acquiring the things that those in my social circle typically crave and work hard to afford will, in the long run, make zero difference in how happy I am and will in no way contribute to my having a good life.

William B. Irvine

#11. The class focuses intensely on making people more comfortable with doing a wider range of things - such as networking, self-promotion, building their own personal brand, cleverly acquiring resources, getting known - that they may have been less comfortable with before.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#12. So soul-satisfaction is not about acquiring the right things but about acquiring the right soul. It is not something you buy, but something you receive freely from God.

John Ortberg

#13. To this end it furnishes them an abundance of Catholic priests to teach them to be docile and obedient, and to be diligent in acquiring ignorance about things here below, and knowledge about the kingdom of heaven,

Mark Twain

#14. The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures of languages, the rhythm, the music and so-on - these things obviously evolved.

Daniel Tammet

#15. I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I was going to, its history, and the countryside. I was acquiring a kind of English character if you like, Englishness about things and my attitudes.

Ibn Warraq

#16. We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you.

Veronica Roth

#17. Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach accordingly. One of the reasons he has so fascinated biographer Robert Caro over the years is Johnson's consummate skill in acquiring and using influence.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#18. We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

John Lancaster Spalding

#19. To be focused on acquiring material things is to forfeit blessings associated with eternal reward

Sunday Adelaja

#20. By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.

Kelly Wearstler

#21. Most people lose the only thing they possess - Life - while acquiring the many things that will finally never be theirs.-RVM

R.v.m.

#22. In the pursuit of acquiring Treasures, we lose the ONE treasure that we truly possess - Life. Let us not lose Life in the wild pursuit of other things.-RVM

R.v.m.

#23. Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!

Zig Ziglar

#24. If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#25. Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

Sei Shonagon

#26. A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience.

Brooke Waggoner

#27. One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.

Robert Harris

#28. It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

Bertrand Russell

#29. 'Plenty of men are good at acquiring money and cars and things, but only a few have real forward motion. You know. Thrust.'

Vicki Pettersson

#30. For women in this era, it seemed that marriage was the easiest way of acquiring the basic freedoms of adulthood. Things

Aziz Ansari