“You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instrumentsproducing a confused agreeable massof sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.”
Arnold Bennett“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”
Arnold Bennett“Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.”
Arnold Bennett“To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.”
Arnold Bennett“Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.”
Arnold Bennett“The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.”
Arnold Bennett“If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.”
Arnold Bennett“We shall never have more time. We have and have always had all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.”
Arnold Bennett“A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only method of avoiding hurry.”
Arnold Bennett“The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them.”
Arnold Bennett“No matter what has happened always behave as if nothing had happened.”
Arnold Bennett