finger-biting

Updated: July 1, 2026

He does one thing at a time, and does it the best he knows how. He directs the whole power of his mentality to the one problem and solves it with accuracy and dispatch. There is no more of a "load" on his "gray matter" than there is on that of the fretting, fuming, finger-biting fritterer, but every pound of steam is spent in useful work. Look at the victim of St. Vitus' dance.

Warren Hilton - Initiative Psychic Energy: Being the Sixth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the: Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and: Business Efficiency