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, Way, Momentum, Keep

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

Cookies, Pleasure, Lies, Pattern, 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

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

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

War, Great, World, World War I, Europe

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, Country, Belief

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

Peace, War, World, Elders, Changes, Side

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

Tip, Iceberg, List, Tip Of The Iceberg

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, Camel, Against, Far

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, Up

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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, World, Me, World War I, Only, Half

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care. Michael Korda

Power, Game, Care, Rules, Bad, News

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

Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton - and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement. Michael Korda

Father, Famous, Detail, Design, Film

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

Dreams, Dream, You, More

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

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, Living, Grand Canyon

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

Good, Attitude, Not Good Enough, Enough

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, Legends, Real

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

Ambition, Hypocrisy, Worth, Pound, Ounce

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

Christmas, Good, War, Great, Luck, Child

There are people to whom heroism under fire comes naturally and seemingly without effort, but Patton was not one of them. Michael Korda

Fire, Effort, People, Heroism, Without

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, Back, Escape

I come from a family that was very strong, very successful, very bizarre, and terrifically exciting. Being a Korda is something I regard as special - not wonderful, or worthy of a national monument, but special. Michael Korda

Family, Strong, Special, Worthy, Being

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, Did, Who, Brutal, Occupation

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, Myself, Day

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