Michael Korda Quotes
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.
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.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always willing to tell the interesting bits.
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.
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War, ' as it was called until 1939.
Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.
