Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English novelist.
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“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
“Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time”
“We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.”
“`Ye can call it influenza if ye like,' said Mrs Machin. `There was no influenza in my young days. We called a cold a cold.'”
“Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.”
“`What great cause is he identified with?' `He's identified . . . with the great cause of cheering us all up.'”
“A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.”
“Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.”
“Anthology construction is one of the pleasantest hobbies that a person who is not mad about golf and bridge - that is to say, a thinking person - can possibly have”
“If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living”