The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. Brenda Ueland More Quotes by Brenda Ueland More Quotes From Brenda Ueland Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it. Brenda Ueland knows work thinking 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. Brenda Ueland flower memories children 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. Brenda Ueland dedication imagination animal Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today. Brenda Ueland powerful animal science 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. Brenda Ueland marriage happy children 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! Brenda Ueland nuts fitness running Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know anybody. Oh, you will know facts and what is in the newspapers and all of history, perhaps, but you will not know one single person. You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is. Brenda Ueland listening people thinking We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done. Brenda Ueland cowardice done said 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. Brenda Ueland tears paper beautiful 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. Brenda Ueland horse morning jobs 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 blessing writing thinking 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. Brenda Ueland change work thinking Consistency is the horror of the world. Brenda Ueland consistency routine world The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny. Brenda Ueland love-you teacher thinking The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why you must freely and recklessly make new mistakes - in writing or in life - and do not fret about them but pass on and write more. Brenda Ueland life-changing mistake moving We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision. Brenda Ueland vision light children I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence for months. The thing to say to such people is: "See how *bad* a story you can write. See how dull you can be. Go ahead. That would be fun and interesting. I will give you ten dollars if you can write something thoroughly dull from beginning to end!" And of course, no one can. Brenda Ueland writing fun people And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good Brenda Ueland beloved listening doe We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role. Brenda Ueland roles listening talking Who are the people, for example, to whom you go for advice? Not to the hard, practical ones who can tell you exactly what to do, but to the listeners; that is, the kindest, least censorious, least bossy people you know. It is because by pouring out your problem to them, you then know what to do about it yourself. Brenda Ueland listening advice people
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