Michael Dell Quotes

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

Michael Dell

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• The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Good
  • Work
  • Running

• I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • School
  • Volunteer
  • Los Angeles

• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • May
  • Lonely
  • Often

• To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Depressing

• I just want to have a nice, happy life.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Nice

• It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Easy
  • Harmony

• We have an alliance that was forged more than a half century ago, and strengthened by shared interests and democratic values. Our people share ties of family, ties of culture, and ties of commerce. Our troops have served to protect Japan’s shores, and our citizens have found opportunity and friendship in Japan’s cities and towns.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Family
  • Culture

• I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler.

  

  Charlie Sykes

• I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.

  

  Pitbull
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I just started running as part of a nutrition program, to just get a little cardio in, but I was not a runner per se before that. I started about March 1 of 2010.

  

  Al Roker
  • Running
  • March

• As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

  

  Len Goodman
  • Long
  • Car

• Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • People
  • Job

• The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Kids
  • House

• God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.

  

  Jim Bakker
  • God
  • Responsibility
  • Forgiveness

• Sometimes we don't want to be lectured; we prefer to be taken on a journey.

  

  David Farr
  • Taken
  • Journey

• The difference that you have with Donald Trump and everyone else in the field is, you've got one proven leader, an individual who has unbelievable success in the private sector. Everybody else in the field talks about it.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Success
  • Trump

• I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

  

  Emma Watson

• I think David Hewlett is a comedic genius. I think he's great.

  

  Brian J. Smith
  • Great

• Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

  

  Anwar Sadat

• Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

  

  John Gerzema
  • Good
  • Work
  • Kindness

• And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Men
  • Comedy

• Sonnen doesn't know martial arts. He's a wrestler; he doesn't know how to respect people. Some say he's promoting the fight, but he disrespected my country, my family and fans.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • People
  • Country
  • Family

• You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time.

  

  Jose Mourinho
  • Time

• Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

  

  Michael Dell
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Perfect