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Brenda Ueland - From the Activity category:
We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day. (Brenda Ueland)
Brenda Ueland - From the Children category:
All children have creative power. (Brenda Ueland)
Brenda Ueland - From the Commitment category:
Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing. (Brenda Ueland)
Brenda Ueland - From the Creativity category:
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. (Brenda Ueland)
Brenda Ueland - From the Criticism category:
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two. (Brenda Ueland)
Brenda Ueland - From the Expression category:
It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. (Brenda Ueland)
Brenda Ueland - From the Fear category:
We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious. (Brenda Ueland)
Brenda Ueland - From the Imagination category:
Imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. (Brenda Ueland)
Brenda Ueland - From the Importance category:
This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. (Brenda Ueland)
Brenda Ueland - From the Inspiration category:
I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day. (Brenda Ueland)
Brenda Ueland - From the Inspiration category:
I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness. (Brenda Ueland)
Brenda Ueland - From the Listening category:
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created. (Brenda Ueland)
Brenda Ueland - From the Mistakes category:
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next. (Brenda Ueland)
Brenda Ueland - From the Thinking category:
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty. (Brenda Ueland)
Brenda Ueland - From the Uniqueness category:
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable. (Brenda Ueland)
Brenda Ueland - From the Work category:
Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and the fear of failure. (Brenda Ueland)
Brenda Ueland - From the Writing category:
Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing. (Brenda Ueland)
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