Generosity Quote by Brenda Ueland Download Open image “...writing is not a performance but a generosity.” — Brenda Ueland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generosity Performances Writing
Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“Writing is a lot like sex: at first you do it because you enjoy it. Then you find yourself doing it with others. But… — Michael J. Goulding Copy Share Image
Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s) — Tony Elumelu Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I think more and more people are becoming much more sensitive to what they do with their money when they die, especially if they… — Angela Rippon Copy Share Image
Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was always clear that I didn't want to just do pure charity. My thinking was definitely about looking at the levers in society… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
