Quotes About Ownership

I can't control anything that happens after the creative process because after that it's not yours anymore, it's everyone else's.

If you have a secret, and it's embarrassing to you, when you tell that story - you own it. It becomes yours, and no one can use it against you.

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

I hate graffiti. It's not yours - don't draw on it! Is it that hard to comprehend?

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours... All of that, I think, is very good for women.

After a song comes out, it doesn't remain yours.

You want to keep it in there because you feel like it's yours but to be able to see that sometimes some stuff needs to go and I think it's for the benefit of the film.

Everything is just so much more romantic and real when it's yours and it's private.

I've heard a few times, in three or four years, this league is going to be yours. I don't like that. Because I think I'm established now.

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours.

Building out a professional profile on LinkedIn certainly makes sense, and bolstering that CV with intelligent pieces of writing is also a great idea. But if you're going to take the time to create content, you should also take the time to create a home for that content that is yours and yours alone.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.

Sometimes when you film, you can be in a bit of a bubble, and then suddenly when you finish filming, it's taken out of your hands - it's not yours anymore, and we all love it so much that we feel quite protective of it.

I always tell my students: I don't care which side you're on. I respect you too much to try to persuade you in 120 minutes a week, much less lure you into pretending that you agree with me. All I want is for you to own this democracy, to see yours, to have a stake in it.

I want everything to be an honest extension of me. What better way than me talking? It's a direct connection with everyone. With film and television, you make great projects, but stand-up is the thing that is completely yours.

I like certain pieces monogrammed because it gives my closet and home warmth - it's just something that you could really feel comfortable with. It's yours; it's something personal. I do it for fun.

As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.

I'm a good old Yorkshire girl in that I don't like to talk about things that are on tick. As my nana always said, 'Until you've bought it, it's not yours,' so until it's signed on the dotted line, I don't like to talk about it.

You look at guys on the court, man. You got this guy with this brand of shoe, and this guy with this brand - they're just wearing the shoe. But it's a whole different feeling when you got a shoe on, and it's yours.