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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, Crumbs

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

World, Succeed, Rise Above, Rise, Accept

The more you can dream, the more you can do. Michael Korda

Dreams, Dream, You, More

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

Success, Achievement, Measure, Distance

Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being. Michael Korda

Life, People, Famous, Some People, Real

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

Tip, Iceberg, List, Tip Of The Iceberg

About once a decade, it becomes necessary to remind Americans again that Ulysses S. Grant was a great man, indeed a giant figure. The usual way to try to do this is by publishing a thumping big biography, and let me say that there is nothing wrong with this, although it still hasn't worked. Michael Korda

Man, Great, Great Man, Me, Say, Nothing

The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check and run. Michael Korda

Bee, Run, Reaction, Normal, Check, Grab

'Il faut vivre' might almost be the French national motto from 1940 to June 1944, but who is to say ours would have been any different if the Germans had paraded victoriously through London and Generalfeldmarschall Von Runstedt made his headquarters at Claridge's? Michael Korda

Motto, Say, London, Different, Through

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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

The men who died at D-Day did not die shoulder-to-shoulder with their French comrades. They died to liberate the French from a sinister and brutal occupation. Michael Korda

Men, Die, Who, Did, Sinister, Brutal

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, Dress, Black, Sailor, Out

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

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, Society, Equality, Birth, True

My father fought on the side of the Central Powers, as a soldier in the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Army, my maternal grandfather fought in the British Army, on different sides, and both were so traumatized by the experience that they never talked about it. Michael Korda

Father, Experience, Army, Grandfather

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

Attitude, Good, Not Good Enough, Enough

It is hard to celebrate the past in an ecumenical way, or even in a fair-minded one, apparently. The trouble with the past is not just that it's behind us, it's that it is not even over yet. Michael Korda

Past, Celebrate, Trouble, Way, Hard, Us

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, Changes, Elders, Side

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, Know, You, Belief, Country

Many years ago, I had the pleasure of editing a book by Joan Crawford, who, like Norma Desmond, was still a big star; it was just the movies that had gotten smaller. Michael Korda

Book, Movies, Star, Pleasure, Editing

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

Ambition, Worth, Pound, Ounce

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. Michael Korda

Failure, Walk, Hidden, Study, Never

It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism. Michael Korda

Time, People, Looking, Me, Crisis, Want

I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it is an exploration into the unknown - 'a journey without maps,' to borrow Graham Greene's phrase. Michael Korda

History, Journey, Knowledge, Myself

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

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

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