Owning Circumstances Quotes & Sayings

The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing. — Blake Mycoskie

We are all capable of regulating how we think and feel. It just boils down to owning that power. — Carlos Wallace

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be. — Amy Hill Hearth

Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase. — Saint-John Perse

Too weird to live, too rare to die! — Hunter S. Thompson

I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing. — Austin Nichols

I flipped through a book on harp seals in the late 1970s and saw images of them swimming in emerald green pools of water surrounded by huge sheets of ice. Right then I was hooked, and I knew this was a story I wanted to do. — Brian Skerry

There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors. That said, it isn't safe to own just one stock, because in spite of your best efforts, the one you choose might be the victim of unforeseen circumstances. In small portfolios, I'd be comfortable owning between three and ten stocks. — Peter Lynch

I should be used to the way Americans dress when traveling, yet it still manages to amaze me. It's as if the person next to you had been washing shoe polish off a pig, then suddenly threw down his sponge saying, Fuck this. I'm going to Los Angeles! — David Sedaris

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. — George Bernard Shaw

We confuse what is complex (raising a child, finding more meaning in our lives) with what is complicated (sending astronauts to the moon, doing our taxes). Confusing the two, leads us to complicated solutions for things that are actually complex instead. — Patti Digh

The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not, this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause. — Simon Mainwaring

It seems impossible that you can love one person so much, no matter what happens, no matter what they do. — Francesca Lia Block

When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock. — Don Cornelius

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory ... — Larry Wall

You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education. — Mikhail Kalinin

Only the exceptional paths bring exceptional glories! — Mehmet Murat Ildan