Quotes About Ownership

At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the error of blaming it on the computer.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can't erase my mistakes.

Behold this day. It is yours to make.

If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?

Thieves slept the sleep of the just, their fingers still in someone else's till.

As we followed him down a hall to a back bedroom, he told us that he owned the house. "Unfortunately, it's not haunted," he said.

Ownership means once I detect a problem I own it. I am responsible for it.

RBG: The Declaration is our first statement of the idea of equality, though that great statement, "all [persons] are created equal," was penned by a slave owner.

Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or another faction will assert control in the name of society. Inevitably, the faction will be the most powerful in society -- that is, the state. This is why all attempts to create socialism in scarce goods or services devolve into totalitarian systems of top-down planning.

My main measure of success is that nobody owns me.

How can teachers teach when parents demand exceptions and cry foul every time their kid gets crossways? Sometimes we step in and advocate, but sometimes our kids are lame and need to own up. Let them feel the sting of detention, a zero, a lost privilege, a time-out. Let failure instruct them.

I want a legacy dripping with human connection, up to its eyeballs in memories and adventures and weathered storms and gladness. I hope to leave a wake of victory, a life of full integrity. I want to say it all, risk it all, own it all.

You can take your life wherever you want it to go, so grab it by its nether regions and make doing the things you love a priority.

You can choose to be a victim to your circumstances or take responsibility for how you choose to perceive them.