Quotes About Ownership

You know who you belong to, Jack?""Yeah.""Yourself."He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.

The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.

Never complain about what you permit.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

No one will take better care of your dream than you.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror!

The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life, is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

You don't get over it. You move past it. You move through it. You lose yourself to find it, and when found, it's yours and no longer theirs.

You're not good for me when you're not mine.

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it.