Quotes About Ownership

First, take responsibility for your life; and second, take initiative. It's that simple. Be an agent, not a victim. Don't wait for life to happen to you; happen to it. Be the driver of your life, not just a passenger. Live out of your imagination, not your past.

I admit this is very hard to accept emotionally, especially if we have had years and years of explaining our misery in the name of circumstance or someone else's behavior. But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

Anytime we think the problem is out there, that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us.

It is so much easier to blame other people, conditioning, or conditions for our own stagnant situation. But we are responsible—"response-able"—to control our lives and to powerfully influence our circumstances by working on be, on what we are.

If you can blame sickness on somebody, instead of accepting it for what it is, then you can avoid being responsible for it. You don't have to try to end the pain.

Responsibility is powerful when thought of in its positive sense. It is the ability to choose our responses.

owners are people who take full responsibility for their happiness, and victims are always lost in their unfortunate stories. Victims blame others, blame circumstance, and are hard to deal with. Owners own their own morale.

owners are people who take full responsibility for their happiness, and victims are always lost in their unfortunate stories. Victims blame others, blame circumstance, and are hard to deal with. Owners own their own morale. They own their response to any situation.

give you in the first place.

Owners focus on what they want. Victims focus on what they fear. And both positions are pure internal invention

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Los propietarios que dicen tenerlo todo «aquí en mi cabeza» rara vez tienen capacidad para edificar un negocio.

you shouldn't be uneasy about any parts of the architecture. It shouldn't contain anything just to please the boss. It shouldn't contain anything that's hard for you to understand. You're the one who'll implement it; if it doesn't make sense to you, how can you implement it?

Cuando [los libros] te pertenecen, y son tuyos —declaró—, y simplemente forman parte de tu vida, todo eso contribuye a crear un sentimiento... de que los libros deberían formar parte de tu vida.»

As the Inuits say, "Gifts make slaves, as whips make dogs.

Is it a good idea to pass along a family business to the next generation? (Sure, if your goal is to kill off the business—for the data show it's generally better to bring in an outside manager.

PROPERTY" GENERALLY      A. General definition: A person may be said to hold a property interest, in the broadest sense, if he has any right which the law will protect against infringement by others.

Our current moral understanding does not seek to balance the interests of a woman not to be raped, the interests of the men who may wish to rape her, and the interests of the husband and fathers who want to monopolize her sexuality. In an upending of the traditional valuation, the woman's ownership of her body counts for everything, and the interests of all other claimants count for nothing.

You can't treat a car like a human being. A car requires love.

To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be.

By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.