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The bestseller list is the tip of the iceberg.
- Michael Korda
#Bestseller
#Iceberg
#List
#Tip
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
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
#Birth
#Equality
#Pain
#Society
#True
In 'Gran Torino,' Eastwood moves towards the climax of the movie not by staging a shoot-out, but by putting his weapons to one side and confronting the bad guys armed only with a cigarette lighter, guessing that as he reaches for it they will think he's drawing a pistol.
- Michael Korda
#Bad
#Drawing
#Guessing
#Side
#Will
To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
- Michael Korda
#Accept
#Rise Above
#Rise
#Succeed
#World
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
#Big
#Book
#Editing
#Movies
#Pleasure
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
#Father
#Guests
#Hotel
#Lunch
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
#Bad
#Care
#Game
#News
#Power
This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
- Michael Korda
#Best
#Failure
#Happiness
#Success
#True
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
#Belief
#Best
#Country
#Go
#Know
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
#Desire
#Face
#Hate
#Success
#Work
What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.
- Michael Korda
#Believe
#Eventually
#Hear
#Will
#You
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
#Accept
#People
#Quality
#Responsibility
#Success
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
- Michael Korda
#Away
#Failure
#Hidden
#Never
#Walk
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
- Michael Korda
#Art
#Except
#Life
#Nothing
#Significance
The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble.
- Michael Korda
#Cookies
#Crumble
#Crumbs
#Make
#Pleasure
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
#Freedom
#New
#Strength
#Success
#Time
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
#Believe In Yourself
#Man
#Me
#Way
#Work
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
- Michael Korda
#Appearance
#Fool
#Well
#Work
#World
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
#Great
#Luck
#War
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
- Michael Korda
#Business
#Look
#Own
#Rules
#Way
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
- Michael Korda
#Goals
#Keep
#Momentum
#Motivational
#Way
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
- Michael Korda
#Dream
#Dreams
#More
#You
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