The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.
Arnold BennettRead
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
Interpretation
Creativity and resourcefulness are more valuable than having a lot of money without innovation.
This quote emphasizes the importance of ingenuity and creativity over mere financial resources. It suggests that using intelligence and inventiveness can yield greater results and enjoyment than simply relying on wealth alone, highlighting the value of innovative thinking in achieving success and fulfillment.
In practice
In a business seminar to illustrate the importance of innovation over capital.
The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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.
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. No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions;_x000D_ if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight
Doverey, no proverey - Trust but verify.
If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them: so if friends increase, set not your hearts upon them, but trust in the living God, let it be the living God that you rest on even for all outward things in this world.
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
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