Ideas Quotes by Brenda Ueland

9 Ideas quotes by Brenda Ueland

Brenda Ueland’s voice encourages readers to trust their inner spark. Across nine quotes she offers gentle, empowering reminders that ideas are personal, alive, and worth nurturing, making the page a warm source of encouragement.

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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…

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You do not know what is in you - an inexhaustible fountain of ideas.

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You Do Not Know Is in You— an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that…

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Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or…

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People who try to boss themselves always want (however kindly) to boss other people. They always think they know best and are…

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These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as:…

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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…

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If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do…

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Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink…

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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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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…

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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…

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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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“...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or…

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Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

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