"Sometimes I think of life as a process……" — Brenda Ueland
"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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70 Quotes by Brenda Ueland
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Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold…
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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to…
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Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is…
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Be bold, free, and truthful.
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In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of…
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We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.
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It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating…
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Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It…
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Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me...…
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I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how…
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Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They…
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More Discouraging Quotes
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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for…
— Alfred Adler
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This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever…
— Mariah Carey
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
— William Ellery Channing
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Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we…
— William J. Clinton
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Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you…
— Gertrude B. Elion
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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
— Chuck Daly
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Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
— John Dewey
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When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He…
— Ralph Miller
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By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport.…
— Svetlana Boginskaya
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People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost…
— Cesar Chavez
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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words…
— Don Henley
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