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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.

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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Art Compassion Fighting
The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has exactly the same feeling. This is the whole secret of enchantment and fascination.
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Feelings Secret Self
The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.
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Best Way Trying Way
Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.
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Creative Creative Power Live Present
Orthodox criticism … is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off.
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Helping Imagination Others People
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
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
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
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
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
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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Express Human Talent
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
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
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
… the great artists … do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.
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Artist Materialistic Want

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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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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