Collecting Quotes - Page 7

• I might be collecting wheely bins in 12 months time but at least they'll be wheely bins outside back gates that I know, in a part of the country that I love. There's no place like home!

  Peter Kay

  Country, Home, Might

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• In collecting evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it; viz. from observation on medical the living subject; from examination of the dead; and from experiments upon living animals.

  Astley Cooper

  Science, Animal, Three

  "Surgical Essays".

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• We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Knowledge, Mean, Understanding

  "Why Leaders Can't Lead: The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues". Book by Warren G. Bennis, 1976.

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• I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn.

  Paula Yates

  Father, Parent, Together

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• Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Reality, Data

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• A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

  Sigmund Freud

  Facts, Collections

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• Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

  Eli Broad

  Art, Obsessive, Collectors

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• She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I serve?" If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Jobs, Helping Others, Nurse

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• [Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

  Linus Pauling

  Learning, Science, Stamps

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• I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs - there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience that too. I love being outside.

  Josh Duhamel

  Kids, Love Is, Space

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• After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

  A. S. W. Rosenbach

  Sports, Book, Exhilarating

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• I enjoy wine collecting and great food.

  Deep Roy

  Wine, Enjoy, Great Food

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• Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Waste, Wasting Time

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.

  Bill Gates

  America, Land, Long

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• Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it boring when collectors found their own private museums or try to establish a memorial to themselves in the form of their collections, it's part of the old aristocratic mentality. I think a collection ought to be dismantled after the collector's death.

  Thomas Koerfer

  Smart, Thinking, Museums

  Source: www.koerferfilm.com

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• The percentage of gays is the same, probably, as anywhere. Most bodybuilders are straight, regular street guys, though a lot aren't serious. Many in California are punks, beach bums just lying around in the sun and maybe collecting unemployment.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Beach, Lying, Gay

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

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• I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.

  Rila Fukushima

  Weakness, Buttons

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• I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don't believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning.

  Nate Berkus

  Believe, Home, Collecting Things

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• Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology.

  Khem Veasna

  Support, Political, Campaigns

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• I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.

  Erik Johansson

  Photography, Ideas, Mind

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• Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of modesty, moderation, compassion, and consideration (not just one society's rules and regulations), the wisdom of seeing things as they are (not of merely collecting "facts" about them), and the happiness of being in harmony with the Way (which has nothing to do with self-righteous "spiritual" obsessions and fanaticism). And you will live lightly, spontaneously, and effortlessly.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Compassion, Self

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• By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Rejection, Firsts, Publication

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• Is it important that the rent of
  land be retained as a source of
  government revenue. Some persons
  who could make excellent use of
  land would be unable to raise money
  for the purchase price. Collecting
  rent annually provides access to
  land for persons with limited
  access to credit.

  Franco Modigliani

  Government, Land, Important

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• My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  New York, Dad, Mean

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