Quotes About Ownership

At one point, I was the youngest owner in major league sports.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?

It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.

If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

When you get into a car, and there's trash, or it's dirty, or one of the hubcaps is off, you're like, 'Come on, dude.' Every woman likes the confidence and self-respect that says, 'I get oil changes. I look after my vehicle.' That's what I recommend: Act like you don't care, but take care of your body.

When someone else is making money off of you and using your body, you need to step off the carousel.

My husband won't remake films and won't allow anyone to remake his films. It's like making your child study like your neighbour's child.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

You paint something, and it's yours. It's your heart up on the wall.

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

You're flawless when you embrace the things about you that you don't necessarily like, but you own them because they're yours.

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is - I don't even want to say that it's mine, because it's yours.

A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.

I think the Internet is comparable to the Homestead Act: Here's a parcel of land. Sign up, cultivate it, it's yours.

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

Once you put songs out, they're not yours anymore. They're everyone else's.