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Brenda Ueland Quotes

Brenda Ueland quotes about thinking

American Writer October 24, 1891 – March 5, 1985

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The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is:"Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out."And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one. Brenda Ueland
We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first? at least, for some part of every day of your life. It is a wonderful blessing if you use it. You will become happier, more enlightened, alive, impassioned, light-hearted and generous to everybody else. Even your health will improve. Colds will disappear and all the other ailments of discouragement and boredom. Brenda Ueland
Brenda Ueland quote: "Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is..."
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two. Brenda Ueland
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. Brenda Ueland
Brenda Ueland quote: "Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and..."
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. Brenda Ueland
Brenda Ueland quote: "Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their..."
Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things. Brenda Ueland
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty. Brenda Ueland

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