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Michael Korda

English Novelist

Born: Oct 8, 1933

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Related authors: Aldous Huxley Charles Dickens E. M. Forster J. R. R. Tolkien Thomas Hardy William Golding William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Motivational Goals Way Constantly One-Way Greater Going Momentum Keep

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

World Rise Above Rise Above Accept Succeed Necessary

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

Situation Luck Right Moment Possible Simply Taking Advantage Taking Advantage Make Always Often Being Mean Your Moment Prepared Right

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

Success Achievement Final Distance Easy Between Always Been Measure Origins

FDR had a certain charisma, at least in his first term, with the big grin, the cigarette holder at a jaunty angle, and the battered hat on his imposing head, but no other American president since then has had it except JFK - indeed, some of them have been positively anti-charismatic, like Gerald Ford, Carter, and the Bushes. Michael Korda

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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 First Changes Side Marshal Some Invariably Mentioned Had Merely Continuation Years Versailles Conference Accurately After Predicted Elders Meant Peace Conference Even Second World War Second World War

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. Michael Korda

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

Pleasure Lies Crumble Crumbs Make Pattern Cookies

Indeed, it is measure of how little we know about Cleopatra that the only images of her are either the coins she struck, bearing very unflattering official portraits of her, or some doubtful busts, which may be of other women imitating her coiffure. Michael Korda

Women Coins Other Imitating Indeed Some About Struck Only Bearing Cleopatra Know She How Very Official May Either Which Little Doubtful Measure Her Portraits Images

I attended first a military academy, then a public school in Beverly Hills, where we lived, and many of my classmates were the children of movie stars and studio executives. Michael Korda

I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his guests; I was sometimes taken for lunch on Saturdays by my father to The Brown Derby; and my favorite meal is still the Cobb salad in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Michael Korda

Birthday Sometimes Father Party Meal Lunch Birthday Party Guests Once Danny Favorite Entertain Brown Taken Attended Dropped Hotel Beverly Beverly Hills Hills Boy Still Salad His Lounge Where Polo Derby Saturdays

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 Sometimes Long Reading State Meeting Once Once A Week Papers Minister Ministers Case Week Remains He He Or She Prime Prime Minister Prime Ministers Sharply Come Come And Go She Advise Go Affairs Comment Sovereign Thatcher Lives Receiving Elizabeth

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

War Christmas Good Great Year Before Luck Good Luck Considered Sign At Least One Find Contained New Always Least Shiny Child New Year Your England Helping Pudding

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

Beast Past Back Eastern Eastern Europe Some Only Horrors Caged Over Like Ready Always Hovering Passed Malevolent Waits Escape Any Moment Europe Even Present Bring

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

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

People Fire Heroism Seemingly Without Effort Patton Them Naturally Whom

It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak. Michael Korda

People Writing Speak Language Hungary Country Nation Few Brazil Every Latin Latin America Say One Thing Find Small Except Outside Read Another However South Very America Few People Quite Where Spanish Hard Speaks Map Thing Million Million People

To be scrupulously honest, I only met Noel Coward twice in my life, and then briefly, but I heard so much about him at home when I was growing up that I always felt I knew him well. Michael Korda

The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide the fact, which is annoying, but Paris is still where good Americans want to go when they die - and Brits, Russians, and Chinese as well, these days. Michael Korda

Good Culture World Hide Guardians Brits Consider Russians Paris Fact Bother Days Annoying French Well Still Go American Die Where Want Which Chinese Themselves

Even almost a century after her death, Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress whose extraordinary personality, flamboyant life and passionate nature became a legend in her own lifetime, remains the byword among most people as the supreme theatrical star. Michael Korda

Life Death Nature People Personality Legend Own Extraordinary Remains Lifetime Almost Most French Supreme Became Passionate Flamboyant After Theatrical Century Sarah Even Star Whose Actress Among Her

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

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

Worth Ambition Ounce Pound

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 Me You Man Yourself Believe In Yourself Will Own Believe Way Ways My Own Getting Might Then Create Next Who Necessarily

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

Attitude Good Not Good Enough Enough Consideration Detailed Purely Subject Agitation

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe. Michael Korda

You Will Believe Hear Repeatedly Eventually

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. Michael Korda

Success Work You Hate Job Degree Face Pleasure Out Directly Fact Proportional Squarely Get Your Desire Chances

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