Quotes About Ownership

Fussell, Chris: "'Life is a series of choices—take accountability for yours.

Not my circus. Not my monkeys.

You can't blame your boss for not giving you the support you need. Plenty of people will say, 'It's my boss's fault.' No, it's actually your fault because you haven't educated him, you haven't influenced him, you haven't explained to him in a manner he understands why you need this support that you need. That's extreme ownership. Own it all.

You need to build your own house, your own shelter.

The moment I start one of these three behaviors—blaming, complaining, or gossiping—I become negative. It is a sign of avoiding what I am responsible for: my life.

Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month," he posited, "the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this—or the boy who had . . . received a Rodgers' penknife from his father? Which would be most likely to cut his fingers?

The New York Times titulado Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win.

sir.' The implication is obvious: If I have problems, I'm going to handle them. I'm going to take care of them, and I'm not going to complain. I took extreme ownership of my world. The way that worked was twofold. When I did need something, it was something significant, it was something real. And when I told the Commodore, 'Hey, boss, we need this right here,' I would get it almost instantaneously

Roses belong to the set R

There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?

But he is asking us to own the connection between our thoughts, desires, and words.

Own whatever personal sin you have brought to the situation.

Beat and cuff the slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog," but "give him a good master, and he wishes to become his own master."1

The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess.

The man who runs naked across a football field certainly disrupts, but he does not change the rules of the game. The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess. —

Quando i giornali dipendono dalla pubblicità, e la pubblicità è in mano a chi ha il potere politico, come puoi essere libero? Quando i giornali sono posseduti dalle grandi aziende contro le quali non potrai mai scrivere e che hanno i loro interessi politici, come fai a fare del vero giornalismo?

You can't own something unless you can swallow it

You want to kill a place, name it. A name only draws the people there who will kill it again. They slice it up or tear it down; they rape the women, burn everyone on pyres, and then, thinking they own it, they name it again. Stupid. Enough to know 'there is a hill and good water, a cross in the road and a strong oak tree.' But do not say it out loud. A home should always stay secret or someone will come to steal it.

your character was the only thing you ever wholly and truly possessed.

It led to the unrelenting hunger of hearts, to lustful, searching eyes, and creeping, confident hands, to souls who believed that what they could touch they could own.

I think that the thing you have to do is, people have to start being held accountable for their decisions. If somebody's not buying insurance, then they're going to have to be selling their car, or whatever it is to try to help cover that.

For a human life to be meaningful, it must be one in which I am not a spectator but a real participant, and a participant in something that matters to me. [...] For my life to be meaningful, those projects have to feel like _my_ projects: not in the sense that I own them, but more in the sense that they own me, that they have captured my focus.

The best way to treat the watch, then, is to wear it.

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