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The only way to love a person is…by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

Brenda Ueland

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
They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.
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Belief More Slowly Unstimulated
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
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
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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Express Human Talent
Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one.
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Animal Powerful Science
Sometimes I think that perhaps the most competent business men, and lawyers and doctors, who must be at the office at nine o’clock every morning, do not realize this and take more credit for initiative and industry than they deserve.
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Credit Doctor More Morning Office Realize
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one’s mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
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Art Go Letting Mistake
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
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
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn’t meant.
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Advertising People Writing
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
And least of all – which is so important, too – to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force…When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
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Imporatnt Least Listened Strange
Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.
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Creative Creative Power Live Present
And this fear (since the imagination is always creative) comes about presently and you slide down into the complete slump of several weeks or years – the very thing you dreaded and set your jaw against.
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Against Complete Deaaded Presently
There is that American pastime known as “kidding” – with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.
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Enthusiasm Feelings Passion

The only way to love a person is…by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

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The only way to love a person is…by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

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