Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one.
BRENDA UELANDTo 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.
More Brenda Ueland Quotes
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Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
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Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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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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Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.
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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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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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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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Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.
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Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
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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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Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.
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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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Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.
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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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