Giving Quotes by Brenda Ueland

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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 a single sentence for months. The thing to say to such people is: "See how *bad* a story…

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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…

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“At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not…

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If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty,…

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“[4It is hard to be carefree when you have many anxieties. But the more you have, the more necessary it is to feel carefree…

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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. I have done this for many years. It is at these times I seem to get re-charged. If I do not walk one day, I seem to have on the next what van Gogh…

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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…

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We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

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Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

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... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of…

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running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed:…

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The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is: "Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." And if…

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... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two…

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“In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out in us, unless we are lucky enough to know intelligent, imaginative, sympathetic people who love us and have the magnanimity to encourage us, to believe in us, by listening, by praise, by appreciation, by laughing. If…

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