Instead of collecting things and staying in one space, I want to collect experiences.
Collecting is more than just buying objects.
I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.
Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.
Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.
The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
Ive decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust.
Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.
I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.
The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.
If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.
Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.
We worked to develop our own operations to advance U. S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.
A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!
Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal, you started it, you are performing a program that is collecting all of the phone records from all Americans, it's been declared illegal from the second highest court in the land, why don't you stop?'
Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.
As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.
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.
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.
The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.