Brenda Ueland Quotes

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• This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

  Brenda Ueland

  Important, Originals

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• Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.

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  Art, Fighting, Compassion

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

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  Believe, Listening, Alive

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• the death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that.

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  Love You, Blow, Parent

  Brenda Ueland (1980). “Me”, Ayer Company Pub

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• it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.

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  Thinking, Live In The Moment, Care

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Inspiration, Creativity, Creating

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.

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  Laughter, Thinking, People

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

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  Ideas, Listening, Grows

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

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  Children, Powerful, Writing

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• Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.

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  Truthful, Motto, Being Truthful

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

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  Thinking, Listening, Knows

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• 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.

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  Children, Writing, Creativity

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

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  Writing, Diaries, Honest

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them without my mind pressing against theirs, or arguing or changing the subject. No. My attitude is: "Tell me more. This person is showing me his soul. It is a little dry and meager and full of grinding talk just now, but presently he will begin to think, not just automatically to talk. He will show his true self. Then he will be wonderfully alive."

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  Attitude, Party, Thinking

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

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  Talent, Humans

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective, and learns more and does more good. And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your husband, your father, your mother, your children, your friends; to those who love you and those who don't, to those who bore you, to your enemies. It will work a small miracle. And perhaps a great one.

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  Mother, Children, Husband

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• 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.

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  Creativity, Long, Six

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

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  Love You, Talking, Three

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• The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

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  Happiness, Creativity, Long

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.

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  Power, Thinking, Forever

  "If You Want to Write".

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• Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

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  Creative, Live In The Present, Creative Power

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• Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

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  Wonder, Reason, Said

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• Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

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  Inspirational, Acceptance, Unique

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.

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  Believe, Writing, People

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• 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.

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  Tired, Listening To Others, People

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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