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Brenda Ueland Quotes

«The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.»
Author: Brenda Ueland | Keywords: expressing, streams
«So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.»
«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.»
«All children have creative power.»
Author: Brenda Ueland | About: Children
«This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.»
Author: Brenda Ueland