Success Quote by Michael Korda

Korda’s line sounds like a motivational poster until you notice the quiet machinery inside it: it isn’t praising talent or even ambition so much as expanding the definition of “dream.” The phrasing treats imagination as a form of capacity-building. “More” doesn’t mean bigger fantasies; it implies range, rehearsal, and repetition. Dreaming becomes a muscle, and doing becomes its downstream effect.

The subtext is pragmatic, even slightly disciplinary. If you’re stuck, the problem isn’t the world’s refusal to cooperate; it’s that your internal catalog of possible futures is too small. That’s a bracing proposition because it shifts responsibility inward without moralizing. It also flatters the reader in a specific way: you already possess the raw material (the ability to envision), but you’re underutilizing it.

As a novelist, Korda is speaking from a craft where the “do” is inseparable from the “dream.” Fiction turns private speculation into public artifact; you can’t draft a scene you can’t first picture. In that context, the line doubles as an argument for creativity as infrastructure, not decoration. The world often treats dreaming as escapism and doing as seriousness. Korda collapses that hierarchy: dreaming is the precondition for agency.

There’s also a subtle optimism with teeth. It’s not “dream and it will happen,” the wish-fulfillment cliché. It’s “dream more, do more,” a causal chain that assumes work, iteration, and the willingness to imagine past the limits of your current life.