The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully… — 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,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty. — 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
These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as:… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
... the spirit, I think, is a stream, a fountain, and must be continually poured out, for only if it is poured… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and… — 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
The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it… — 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
Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I readan article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you… — 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
it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that 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 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
