"The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling……" — Brenda Ueland

"The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering."

— Brenda Ueland

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70 Quotes by Brenda Ueland

Brenda Ueland has 70 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold…
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to…
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is…
Be bold, free, and truthful.
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of…
We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.
It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating…
Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It…
Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me...…
I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how…
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 Dawdling Quotes

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A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was… — Jules de Goncourt
To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for… — Kate Douglas Wiggin
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the… — George Plimpton
The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars. — Jack Kerouac
Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it?… — E. M. Forster
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting… — Pearl S. Buck
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. — Amy Bloom

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