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And it is why all the bright women of the world, who if more were expected of them, might do important work, but who instead have a chronic feeling of ineffectiveness and sloth.

Brenda Ueland

If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: ‘Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!’ you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.
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Children Doors Mother
Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.
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Drawing Thinking Writing
Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers…. Think if Tiffany’s made a mosquito, how wonderful we would think it was!
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Incandescent Messenger Think Yourself
The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
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Love You Teacher Thinking
To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it has no horse-power.
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Horse Jobs Morning
… when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. … Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.
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Race Thinking Two
And it is why all the bright women of the world, who if more were expected of them, might do important work, but who instead have a chronic feeling of ineffectiveness and sloth.
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Ineffectiveness Instead might Sloth Women
I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence for months.
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Fun People Writing
Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.
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Love Talking Three You
You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.
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Active Religion Science Today
we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.
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Ends Fixed Thinking
Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.
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Knows Thinking Work
You Do Not Know Is in You- an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that the ideas in you are an inexhaustible fountain.
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Fountain Ideas Knows
But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible–villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word
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Believe Ordinary World
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.
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Listening People Tired
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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Art Compassion Fighting

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