Michael Mann Quotes

We bring our preparation to the table, and opportunity may present itself, and if you are well prepared, you can seize opportunity and then maybe something good happens, and you call that luck.

Michael Mann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: February 5, 1943

Topics

GoodOpportunityPreparationLuck

I'm not a policy wonk - I'm somewhere between being undecided and a surrogate.

Jimmy Smits

PolicySomewhereBeingBetween

My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.

Jencarlos Canela

FatherBestStartDirectionLanguage

I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

John Paul DeJoria

DetailManagementIgnoreAttention

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.

Matt de la Pena

PeopleMeThinkTalkingWorthYou

Marvel Studios has depicted the Marvel superheroes so beautifully that the whole world loves them.

Stan Lee

WorldWholeMarvelThemSuperheroes

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

Steven Seagal

GreatDayI AmSexI CanActor

Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.

Simon Sinek

FocusListeningAttentionActive

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.

Tom Jones

MyselfWeaknessWatchesStopMore

I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency.

Mike Fitzpatrick

TodayI AmFaceNewsSpecialUnited

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Milton Friedman

GovernmentPeopleProblemWantMore

I simply loved all my life; loved is too strong a word, but I had a tremendous sentiment, partly conditioned, of course, by the reality of where I grew up, for the spirit of individualism, for the idea of your being on your own in a big way.

Joseph Brodsky

LifeStrongRealityLovedMy Life

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

Douglas Coupland

PeopleStartWeirdCountSentences

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