Quotes About Ownership

This early piece of the morning is mine.

What's "just" has been debated for centuries, but let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then, tell me how much of what I earn "belongs" to you -- and why?

But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong

if you are in a situation or difficulty, you can make a U-turn; instead of putting the blame on something outside or on someone else, look within yourself to see how you have contributed to the problem, and then find a way to restore peace to the situation.

Occasionally, however, when chided by their slaves or others, slaveholders did act in concert with the better selves of their paternalist rhetoric. William Green's mother convinced her owner ("she having nursed him when a child") to sell her son in the neighborhood rather than to a slave trader.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

They have lived in the lonely places because they are independent, not because they are like their own sheep. What they have is not a lot but it belongs to them and they have to thank no other man for it.

to ask powerful Why questions. To do so, we must: •  Step back. •  Notice what others miss. •  Challenge assumptions (including our own). •  Gain a deeper understanding of the situation or problem at hand, through contextual inquiry. •  Question the questions we're asking. •  Take ownership of a particular question. While a fairly straightforward process, it begins by moving backward.

Noonan observes that if you never actually do anything about a problem yourself, then you're not really questioning—you're complaining

What Dan Meyer did in showing the video and then holding back as he waited for that question to form in students' heads was to transfer ownership: Instead of asking the question himself, he allowed students to think of it on their own—at which point it became their question.

if you never actually do anything about a problem yourself, then you're not really questioning—you're complaining.

The clients who hired Drucker may have started out expecting the great consultant to offer brilliant solutions to all their problems. But as he told one client, "The answers have to be yours.

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

It is a great thing when I discover I am no longer my own but His. If the ten shillings in my pocket belong to me, then I have full authority over them. But if they belong to another who has committed them to me in trust, then I cannot buy what I please with them, and I dare not lose them. Real Christian life begins with knowing this.

If you don't control your time- someone else will. If you don't protect your dream- you will fulfill someone else 's dream.

Jesus didn't come into our lives to rent a room; He bought the house! As we unlock the doors to the areas that we've held onto and allow Him free reign, we experience His life living through us.

The last 5 percent . . . it's something we have to discover and then be responsible for. • • Only I can be a husband/wife to my spouse. • • Only I can be a father/mother to my children. • • Only I can grow myself spiritually. • • Only I can keep myself healthy. • • Only I can keep myself disciplined.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

Lead, follow—what difference does it make? It's all a choice. There's no escape in blame, no comfort in shirking responsibility. We all make choices. We must all face the consequences of those choices.

Hate has always been the blinder used by those who own slaves. It allows those they enslave to only see those who escaped the yoke, and not the one that sits holding the reins. The moment you hear anyone fear-mongering and pointing fingers, you should look for the shackle on your ankle." "Don't

The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.