Michael Korda Quotes

English - Novelist Born: October 8, 1933

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. - Michael Korda

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. Michael Korda

Motivational, Goals, Momentum, Way, Keep

The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble. Michael Korda

Cookies, Pleasure, Pattern, Lies, Make

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. Michael Korda

Success, Achievement, Distance, Measure

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it. Michael Korda

Succeed, World, Rise Above, Rise, Accept

There used to be a strong belief that if you wanted to know what was really going on in a country, the best thing to do was to go there and ask a taxi driver. Michael Korda

Best, Strong, You, Know, Country, Go

Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up to a point, but Roman citizens lived in a society that accepted pain, cruelty, and torture as the norm, and in which there was no suggestion of equality at birth or mercy in the afterlife. Michael Korda

Pain, Equality, Society, True, Rome, Up

I have an admiration for Mr. Eastwood that borders on the kind that I have for the Grand Canyon. Like it, he is craggy, worn, awesomely impressive and unique, a living four-star tourist attraction that, in the formulaic words of the Guide Michelin, 'vaut le voyage.' Michael Korda

Words, Unique, Kind, Grand Canyon, Guide

Chanel took women out of corsets and put them into the 'simple little black dress,' the perfectly tailored suit, the bell-bottom sailor pants, and jersey tops. Michael Korda

Women, Simple, Black, Dress, Sailor, Out

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939. Michael Korda

Great, War, World, World War I, Event

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition. Michael Korda

Ambition, Worth, Pound, Ounce

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When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your helping of the pudding. Michael Korda

Good, Great, War, Good Luck, Luck, Child

T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted on a camel, leading the Arab tribes against the Turks in World War One. Michael Korda

War, World, More, Against, Camel, Far

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there. Michael Korda

Work, Believe In Yourself, Man, Yourself

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. Michael Korda

Good, Attitude, Not Good Enough, Enough

Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared. Michael Korda

Moment, Luck, Situation, Right, Mean

In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some malevolent caged beast, ready at any moment to escape and bring back all the horrors. Michael Korda

Moment, Past, Present, Beast, Ready

Prime ministers come and go, but so long as he or she lives, the sovereign remains, receiving and reading all state papers and meeting once a week with the prime minister to advise, enquire, and comment - sometimes sharply, as was the case with Queen Elizabeth II and Mrs. Thatcher - on affairs of state. Michael Korda

Queen, Reading, Week, Long, Meeting, She

For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books of this kind not only fail but fail big, since they are invariably expensive. Michael Korda

Book, Forget, Celebrity, Kind, Dangerous

The bestseller list is the tip of the iceberg. Michael Korda

Tip, Iceberg, Tip Of The Iceberg, List

Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended. Michael Korda

War, Me, World, World War I, Only, Event

When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely the continuation of the first, 'an armistice of 20 years,' as Marshal Foch had accurately predicted at the Versailles Peace Conference, with some changes of side. Michael Korda

War, Peace, World, Elders, First, Years

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility. Michael Korda

Success, Responsibility, Quality, People

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. - Michael Korda

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. Michael Korda

Life, Art, Nothing, Significance, Except

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch. Michael Korda

Success, Confidence, Live, Day, Myself

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself. Michael Korda

Best, Curiosity, Writing, World, Oneself

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels. Michael Korda

Interesting, Find, Turn, Nonfiction, Out

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