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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day Quotes by Arnold Bennett: Context & Meanings

4 quotations linked to How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by or associated with Arnold Bennett, with source notes, explanations and related topics.

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1908 conduct-of-life / time-use book

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Time, present action, personal programmes, attention, restraint, reading, reflection and the practical use of hours outside obligatory work.

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Time is a great deal more than money.
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“Time is a great deal more than money.”

Arnold Bennett
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Bennett treats time as the more fundamental resource because money can be gained or lost within time, whereas each passing hour is the fixed medium in which every other activity occurs.

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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, opening discussion of the daily allotment of time. The represented public-domain Project Gutenberg text is #2274; the line is conduct-of-life rhetoric, not a literal economic equivalence.

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You can only waste the passing moment.
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“You can only waste the passing moment.”

Arnold Bennett
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The warning narrows time management to the moment actually available: past hours cannot be recovered and future hours cannot yet be spent.

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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, “The Daily Miracle.” Bennett contrasts time with money and property while arguing that only the current flow of time can actually be wasted.

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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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“You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.”

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A failed plan need not govern the remainder of the day; Bennett frames each hour as another practical opportunity to restart deliberate action.

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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, discussion of beginning a programme of self-directed use of spare time. The sentence is practical encouragement within Bennett’s period self-improvement argument.

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The only cure is to reconstitute the programme, and to attempt less.
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“The only cure is to reconstitute the programme, and to attempt less.”

Arnold Bennett
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When a schedule becomes oppressive, Bennett recommends reducing the plan rather than allowing the plan itself to dominate the person it was meant to help.

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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, “Dangers to Avoid.” Bennett is warning against becoming enslaved to an over-ambitious personal programme; “attempt less” is adjustment advice, not a general rejection of ambition.

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