Quotes About Ownership

There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.

Ownership: 'A commitment of the head, heart, and hands to fix the problem and never again affix the blame.

Accountable people look for solutions, not scapegoats. They blame no one—not even themselves. If a "self-critique" is warranted, they ask QBQs like "What could I have done differently?" and "How can I learn from this experience?

Blame and "Whodunit?" questions solve nothing. They create fear, destroy innovation, inhibit teamwork, build walls, and prevent people from engaging.

The best thing we can do to get rid of victim thinking in our world is to get rid of it in ourselves. The first QBQ guideline says all

This girl is the daughter of the man who once owned Jon's mother as a negro-slave was owned. You can't lay that ghost; don't try to, June! It's asking us to see Jon joined to the flesh and blood of the man who possessed Jon's mother against her will.

but the rule here, as it is in Montana, is that you can fish through any private property as long as you stay in the streambed.

On the console between us is a 9-millimeter Glock, properly purchased and registered by him.

released from Whitfield. John had cautioned him that such a clause might be hard to enforce if the children, as owners, for some reason wanted to prevent their mother from living there. The will had other problems, all carefully pointed out by the lawyer and all stubbornly ignored by the client

Denny and Rooker were watching too. They had traced the North Carolina license plates on Mercer's car and done the background. They knew her name, recent employment history, current lodging at the Lighthouse Inn, publishing résumé, and partial ownership of the beach

Cuando duermes, engañas al sistema. El tiempo del sueño te pertenece a ti y no al Estado.

cat's feelings, and neither do you. It is not your pet anymore. It is an asshole who lives with you.

Those who own the country ought to govern it.

You never waste your time. That's why I have to do it for you.

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it

In Switzerland, it is illegal to keep just one guinea pig.

When D's cabin caught fire, D was out of the country. Half the town-Christians and drinkers alike-came out to fight the fire and loot the cabin. There were individual piles of loot, and fights over the piles. That's my pile. The hell it is, it's mine.

We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.

The only person who can fix education is the student.

It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

A brand is an emotional construct. It helps you to project an image to the world which you'd like to own.

Homes-the very idea of homeownership-evoke a strong emotional reaction in all of us.