“You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.” FirstsIdeasParticularAcquireBricksStraws Book:Delphi Collected Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated)
“The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.” FirstsCallingTestsRateSincerity Author:Arnold Bennett
“The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.” WayWritingFirstsChildrenBookEyeFirst TimeGreat BookEyes Of A Child Author:Arnold Bennett
“A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.” FirstsLateRatePlanningUnexpectedMarginsSleevesOrganizerPlanning For Success Author: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; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons. Cherish and burnish this faculty of seeing crudely, simply, artlessly, ignorantly; of seeing like a baby or a lunatic, who lives each moment by itself and tarnishes by the present no remembrance of the past.” IfsFirstsMomentsUsePastMemoriesVisionWonderfulSeeingColorBabySceneFirst TimeOneselfAweComparisonFacultyCustomsCherishRemembranceCastingLunaticCasting Off Book:Delenda est * BOD : staff use only Source: Delenda est * BOD : staff use only
“The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenGivingYearsFirstsWellsDoeBookMightNightReadingLiteratureCuttingMinutesCarObjectsDrinkReflectionCarefulBreadAwfulSoleBoresSuggestionsMotorBetter ManBread And ButterShireMotor Cars Book:How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day Source: How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day
“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.” IfsFirstsUseMemoriesWonderWonderfulSceneFirst TimeOneselfCustomsCastingCasting Off Book:The Old Wives' Tale Source: The Old Wives' Tale
