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title: "3 Gifted Quotes By Brenda Ueland"
description: "3 Gifted quotes by Brenda Ueland. Plus more from Brenda Ueland and more Gifted sayings from other authors."
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> [I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/i-found-that-many-gifted-people-are-so-afraid-of-writing-a-poor-story/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c38/brenda-ueland-3836_dollars_i-found-that-many-gifted-people-are-so-a_721403.png)

> [ We should all know this: that listening is not talking; \[it\] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/we-should-all-know-this-that-listening-is-not-talking-it-is-the/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

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> [We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/we-should-all-know-this-that-listening-not-talking-is-the-gifted-and/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

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## Other authors on Gifted

## More by Brenda Ueland

> [“At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/at-least-i-understood-that-writing-was-this-an-impulse-to-share-with/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

> [If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/if-i-did-not-wear-torn-pants-orthopedic-shoes-frantic-disheveled-hair/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

> [“\[4It is hard to be carefree when you have many anxieties. But the more you have, the more necessary it is to feel carefree…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/4it-is-hard-to-be-carefree-when-you-have-many-anxieties-but-the-more/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/i-will-tell-you-what-i-have-learned-myself-for-me-a-long-five-or-six/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

> [Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/self-trust-is-so-important-when-you-launch-on-a-story-make-your-neck/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

> [We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/we-start-out-in-our-lives-as-little-children-full-of-light-and-the/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

> [Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/inspiration-comes-to-us-slowly-and-quietly-prime-it-with-a-little/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

> [... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/to-paint-with-oil-paints-for-the-first-time-is-like-trying-to-make/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

> [running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/running-is-the-right-thing-to-do-i-am-free-healthy-with-a-good/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

> [The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/the-only-good-teachers-for-you-are-those-friends-who-love-you-who/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

> [... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/when-i-am-really-alone-some-power-seems-to-grow-in-me-conjugality/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

> [“In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/in-the-same-way-there-is-much-much-in-all-of-us-but-we-do-not-know-it/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

> [When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/when-we-are-listened-to-it-creates-us-makes-us-unfold-and-expand/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

> [“...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/the-best-way-to-know-the-truth-or-beauty-is-to-try-to-express-it-and/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

> [Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-ueland/sometimes-i-think-of-life-as-a-process-where-everybody-is/)

[Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-ueland/)

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