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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.

Brenda Ueland

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
If you write something and they all tell you it is bad – editors, critics, everybody – think it over and you may become convinced that they are right (though you are not to be ashamed or discouraged for a minute, but keep on writing).
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Editors Thinking 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
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
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Acceptance Inspirational Unique
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
Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing and just delighted with any manifestation of yourself, bad or good.
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Love You Mean Nice
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 self he thinks he *should* be.
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Self Speak Thinking
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
If we don’t act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.
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Change Thinking Work
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
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Diaries Honest Writing
The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.
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Best Way Trying Way
You know, I have come to think listening is love, that’s what it really is.
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Listening Thinking
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
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
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
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
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Sometimes Thinking Two

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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