The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
About Michael Korda
Michael Kordais an English-born writer and novelist who was editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City.
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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.
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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.
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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement.
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The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
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One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
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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.
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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.
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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
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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.
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Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.
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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
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The more you can dream, the more you can do.
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The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
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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.
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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.
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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.
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An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
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The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own.
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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
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An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
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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.
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