He works himself into states of crisis and distress, worrying that people are going to know he is a fraud and that his career is over.


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ARNOLD BENNETT
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valua...
BO BENNETT
It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparin...
BO BENNETT
I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out an...
TONY BENNETT
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows...
ARNOLD BENNETT
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they a...
ARNOLD BENNETT
The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods ...
ARNOLD BENNETT
We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's var...
ARNOLD BENNETT
A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
ARNOLD BENNETT
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Al...
ARNOLD BENNETT
The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world...
ARNOLD BENNETT
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient liv...
ARNOLD BENNETT
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
TONY BENNETT
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
ARNOLD BENNETT
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The g...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret func...
ARNOLD BENNETT
The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
ARNOLD BENNETT
It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike a...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk ...
ALAN BENNETT
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
ARNOLD BENNETT
Avoiding the phrase
BO BENNETT
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
BO BENNETT
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
ALAN BENNETT
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blam...
ARNOLD BENNETT
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happines...
BO BENNETT
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for exper...
ARNOLD BENNETT
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT
The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
JESSE BENNETT
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ing...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of avera...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
BO BENNETT
Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people; He built a church in Dublin town,...
HENRY BENNETT
The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another.
DAN BENNETT
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be...
BO BENNETT
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
WILLIAM BENNETT
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission
ARNOLD BENNETT
The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme ...
ARNOLD BENNETT
A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must b...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ing...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
ARNOLD BENNETT