Brenda Ueland Quotes - Page 4

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• running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

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  Fitness, Running, Nuts

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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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.

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  Cutting, Thinking, Ideas

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Writing, People, Advertising

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• ... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

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  Artist, Want, Materialistic

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• There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.

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  Passion, Feelings, Enthusiasm

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery.

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  Hate, Mean, Thinking

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are going to throw it away. Try writing utterly unplanned stories and see what comes out.

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  Writing, Self, Lazy

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.

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  Children, Memories, Flower

  Brenda Ueland (1939). “Me”

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• We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

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  Children, Light, Vision

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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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.

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  Love, Work, Passion

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.

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  Writing, Talking, People

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• it is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. ... Pour out the dull things on paper too-you can tear them up afterward-for only then do the bright ones come. If you hold back the dull things, you are certain to hold back what is clear and beautiful and true and lively.

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  Beautiful, Tears, Paper

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• If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

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  Happy, Marriage, Children

  Brenda Ueland (1980). “Me”, Ayer Company Pub

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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. Sometimes I think that perhaps the most competent business men, and lawyers and doctors, who must be at the office at nine o'clock every morning, do not realize this and take more credit for initiative and industry than they deserve. 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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  Morning, Horse, Jobs

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• We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.

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  Done, Cowardice, Said

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• ... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

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  Thinking, Race, Two

  Brenda Ueland (1939). “Me”

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• And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

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  Listening, Doe, Beloved

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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.

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  Teacher, Love You, Thinking

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.

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  People, Effort, Lilies

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• 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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  Writing, Thinking, Editors

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Ideas, Fountain, Knows

  "If You Want to Write".

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• The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

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  Thinking, People, Tragedy

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Teacher, Attitude, Love You

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Change, Work, Thinking

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of scientists to vivisection, which is the easy and cheap way, actually prevents them from scientific progress, for true progress is difficult and requires genius and imagination in its devoted workers.

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  Animal, Dedication, Imagination

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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