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Arnold Bennett - From the Artists category:
At moments we are all artists. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Artists category:
The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore you. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Beginning category:
- How to Live on 24 Hours a Day...
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Blocks category:
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Books category:
All impassioned bookmen, except a few who devote their whole lives to reading, have rows of books on their shelves which they have never read, and which they never will read. I know that I have hundreds such. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Change category:
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Earth category:
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Efficiency category:
A sense of the value of time – that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities – is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Effort category:
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Ego category:
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Experience category:
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Friendship category:
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Happiness category:
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Insight category:
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight... A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Intellect category:
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Language category:
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Life category:
You have to live on this twenty-four hours of daily time. Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your immortal soul. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Money category:
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Money category:
Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Order category:
A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Poetry category:
Imaginative poetry produces a far greater mental strain than novels. It produces probably the severest strain of any form of literature. It is the highest form of literature. It yields the highest form of pleasure, and teaches the highest form of wisdom. In a word, there is nothing to compare with it. I say this with sad consciousness of the fact that the majority of people do not read poetry. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Possessions category:
You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Potential category:
The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Preparation category:
If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Recognition category:
It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult, seriously, to mar a reputation once properly made - so faithful is the public. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Time category:
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Time category:
The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Truth category:
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Work category:
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Writing category:
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking. (Arnold Bennett)
Arnold Bennett - From the Writing category:
The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed... literary taste... your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place. (Arnold Bennett)
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