Brenda ueland Quotes

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

“Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time you are incomparable.”

“Everybody is talented original and has something important to say.”

“When we are listened to it creates us makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.”

“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.”

“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 off.”

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

“We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good true and serious.”

“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 oneself.”