Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
People who try to boss themselves always want (however kindly) to boss other people. They always think they know best and are… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
You must become aware of the richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there, so that… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
You Do Not Know Is in You— an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Who are the people, for example, to whom you go for advice? Not to the hard, practical ones who can tell you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“[4It is hard to be carefree when you have many anxieties. But the more you have, the more necessary it is to feel carefree… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“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… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
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… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed:… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
