Quotes About Personal Ownership

#1. Success is personal ownership of the dream, and responsibility for its desired outcome.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#2. The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.

Nigel Lawson

#3. Great mentors don't solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.

Steve Knox

#4. I've heard from quite a few people, you sense that there is an ownership of the [ Cinderella], it was so personal for so many people, so I was interested in trying to work out why that was.

Kenneth Branagh

#5. Kids have to be taught to hate,

Dale Hansen

#6. A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him.'

Dana Carvey

#7. Look for magic in daily routine.

Lou Barlow

#8. Also, human groups are formed of highly flexible alliances, not just among family members but between families, genders, classes, and tribes. The bonding is based on cooperation among individuals or groups who know one another and are capable of distributing ownership and status on a personal basis.

Edward O. Wilson

#9. Take ownership of your life decisions rather than relinquishing that responsibility to others.

Frank Sonnenberg

#10. Time well spent is an investment of the past for a practical and bright Future.

Victor John Lao

#11. I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

Leslie Caron

#12. You can own an elephant or a bank or power thereof but if there's no personal breast bliss all you own is a lot of dead atoms and ideas.

Allen Ginsberg

#13. Claim ownership of your brand, your expertise, then defend it with deeds

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#14. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

Kahlil Gibran

#15. The love of fate corresponds to a willingness to accept ownership of one's actions, whether these are spontaneous or imposed from the outside. It is this acceptance that leads to personal growth, and provides the feeling of serene enjoyment which removes the burden of entropy from everyday life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#16. If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

Clifford Stoll

#17. I knew the door I wanted. I knocked.

V.S. Naipaul

#18. From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

Henry Charles Carey

#19. Jerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully.

Ornette Coleman

#20. In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#21. The laws of certain states ... give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property ... But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty - and when the captor in war ... thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.

Alexander Hamilton

#22. If you own this story you get to write the ending.

Brene Brown

#23. I couldn't wait to see Phaelan. I'd know instantly if she'd dropped anchor on his ego. *

Lisa Shearin

#24. Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others.

Kaiden Blake

#25. Lightstone's Convolution Principle: The concurrent development of multiple features operating on intersecting componentry will take longer to complete than the sum of the schedule estimations for each.

Scott Meyers