Acquiring Things Quotes:

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

topic: Passion, Important, Acquiring Things, Deterrent

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

- Mike Tyson

source: "Tyson can't beat Father Time" by Chuck Johnson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 12, 2005.

topic: Losing Everything, Acquiring Things, Life Is, Thoughts On Life

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Purpose, Acquiring Things, Discovering

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Cheating, Money, Pick Me Up, Financial Prosperity, Abundance And Prosperity

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

- Confucius

topic: Teacher, Thinking, May, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Learning

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”

topic: Life, Time, Learning, Acquiring Things

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

topic: Home, Eye, Trying, Acquiring Things, Building A Home

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

source: Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

topic: Life, Success, Real, Career Success, Fast Paced

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

topic: Happiness, Spiritual, Thinking, Spiritual Peace, Acquiring Things

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

topic: Mean, Men, Ties, Acquiring Things, Possessing