"Why should we all use our creative power....?……" — Brenda Ueland
"Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money."
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70 Quotes by Brenda Ueland
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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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Who are the people, for example, to whom you go for advice? Not to the hard, practical ones who can…
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