Quotes by Brenda Ueland

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. You can see that when you think how the friends that really listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius as though it did us good, like ultraviolet rays.

"Since you are like no being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable."

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.

So you see, imagination needs moodling-long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.