“ The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. Brenda Ueland
“ When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life. Brenda Ueland
“ About William Blake)As for Blake's happiness--a man who knew him said: If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me.A… Brenda Ueland
“ This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. Brenda Ueland
“ Remember William Blake who said: Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unex… Brenda Ueland
“ In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out in us, unless we are lucky enough to know intelligent, imaginative, sympathetic people who love us and… Brenda Ueland
“ Inspiration does not come like a bolt nor is it kinetic energy striving but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time. Brenda Ueland
“ Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented having the most imagination and sympathy these are the first ones to get killed… Brenda Ueland
“ 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… Brenda Ueland
“ About William Blake)[Blake] said most of us mix up God and Satan. He said that what most people think is God is merely prudence, and the restrainer and inhibitor of energy, which results in fear and p… Brenda Ueland
“ Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. Brenda Ueland
“ Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time you are incomparable. Brenda Ueland
“ We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good true and serious. Brenda Ueland
“ In true courage there is always an element of choice of an ethical choice and of anguish and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it a vision of some necessity higher than… Brenda Ueland
“ Yes, 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… Brenda Ueland
“ 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 u… 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
