A Quote by Michael Korda

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

Michael Korda

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Michael Korda
English - Novelist
Born: October 8, 1933

We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.

Russell Banks

Interacting with other people does not come naturally to me; it is a strain and requires effort, and since it does not come naturally I feel like I am not really myself when I make that effort. I feel fairly comfortable with my family, but even with them I sometimes feel the strain of not being alone.

Peter Cameron

What I find amazing is how sometimes ideas will just click, seemingly without effort.

Debra Hamel

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

Bob Nelson

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill.

Charles Baudelaire

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

Erich Segal

I think, a lot of times when you do a comedy show, people will turn out for a name they know. So, they get excited when they see Patton Oswalt is going to be on the show, but they kind of cross their arms until Patton Oswalt shows up.

Wyatt Cenac

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Charles Baudelaire

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Charles Baudelaire

The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing.

Walter Russell

We think of speaking as something we do naturally, without any effort. But like playing music, it requires attention and knowledge and practice.

Theodore Zeldin

The more you expand your awareness, the more naturally you will be present without effort.

Deepak Chopra

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?

Paul Bourget

Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they can get them without undue personal effort, so much the better. So the executive naturally tends to promise material gain, contingent of course on his remaining in power. The impetus to personal rule is obvious.