Quotes About Ownership

A single, dancing thread ties the people of the world together in a cohesive fabric. This is our humanness and mortality. We are all born with a similar challenge, borne from the blessing of ownership of this complex physical body.... With this ownership... comes the sometimes immense responsibility of health maintenance.

I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience... [it is also] about the mind! It is about owning one's body... It is about believing that you are not you; you are everything. And everything is you.

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

Know who is driving next to you. Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

Pero, actuemos intencionadamente o por ignorancia , nadie mas que nosotros mismos es responsable de nuestros éxitos o fracasos

Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there. Still,

Children are not chattel. they cannot be given away or traded in the marketplace.

But racing in the rain is also about the mind! It is about owning one's own body. About believing that one's car is merely an extension of one's body. About believing that the track is an extension of the car, and the rain is an extension of the track, and the sky is an extension of the rain. It is about believing that you are not you; you are everything. And everything is you.

Socialism" became an English word in 1827, when Cooperative Magazine described Welsh reformer Robert Owen (1771–1858) as a socialist—an advocate of the view that industrial wealth should be owned in common, on a cooperative basis. Owen was the first Briton to grasp the meaning of the Industrial Revolution.

Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.

must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.

Most people think buying is investing, but they're wrong. Buying doesn't make you an investor any more than buying groceries makes you a chef.

When life happens, you can be either the author of your life or the victim of it. Those are your only two choices—accountable or unaccountable. This may sound harsh, but it's true. Every day we choose one approach or the other, and the consequences follow us forever.

Once people had a clear idea of what decisions they should and should not be making, holding them accountable for decisions felt fair.

Their outlook on life is not that "things happen to them". Their outlook on life is that "things happen BECAUSE of them". They are where they are in their lives at this very moment either because of the things they have done, or the things they haven't done! This is a really great attitude to have, and it is an attitude that most winners in life have.

True charisma will come from taking charge of each situation by saying "I'm responsible", but then not seeking any praise or approval afterwards.

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again.

Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. "You're my sacred ones," I told the books. "No one but me still cares about you. But I'm going to keep you with me forever. And one day I'll make you important again." I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

Now that I've owned up to being a collector, I'll say that what really gets me off is knowing I have this personal library of everything that appeals to me, and that I can pull any of it out whenever I want to. That's the wonderful thing, customizing the soundtrack of your life.

The contract had been drawn up by people who knew more about a fast buck than does a slow doe. I thought it an inhuman document providing simply for the enslavement of any artiste eager and gullible enough to place his name over a stamp. Its like is still around and there are several artistes, some of them quite well-known, bound by this form of contract. I am not permitted to name them but they and their owners know who are they.