When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does… — 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
We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't… — 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“[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
“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
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
We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
... 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
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
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
... 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
“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
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
“...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
![“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…” quote by Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/839/brenda-ueland-3836_beloved_we-should-all-know-this-that-listening-i_1134332.jpg)
