#ownership

People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#chaplin #charlie #charlie chaplin #go #guy

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership. ↗

— Jeffrey Skilling

#i #increased #net #ownership #shares

It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#finds #foundations #grows #helps #incident

Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it. ↗

— Richard Eyre

#conflict #entitlement #kids #ownership #parenting

If you own this story you get to write the ending. ↗

— Brené Brown

#personal-responsibility #self #story #taking-ownership #life

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#apprehensive #been #carry #certain #homeless

I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet. ↗

— James Larkin

#aware #control #course #development #i

The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear. ↗

— Art Modell

#quality

When the new ownership came in, they made some decisions I wasn't pleased with. And when they changed the whole aspect of it, I just totally lost interest. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#came #changed #decisions #i #interest

I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#ownership #silence #writing #inspirational