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Thinking Quotes by Brenda Ueland
- Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It…
- Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them…
- You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.
- The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
- Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.
- Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
- If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you may become convinced…
- Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
- The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
- We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the…
- Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the…
- The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude…
- Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.
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- I don't think I have a signature. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
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- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams