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...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.

Listening Quotes, by Brenda Ueland

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Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.

Vanity Quotes, by Brenda Ueland

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This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

Miscellaneous Quotes, by Brenda Ueland

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It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

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I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Miscellaneous Quotes, by Brenda Ueland

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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.

Miscellaneous Quotes, by Brenda Ueland

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I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

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The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

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These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget." But they have no slow, big ideas.

Miscellaneous Quotes, by Brenda Ueland

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So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

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I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

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All children have creative power.

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