Brenda Ueland Quotes
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
Quotes to Explore
-
There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
-
I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
-
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
-
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
-
The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
-
We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.
-
What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
-
I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
-
My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
-
I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
-
I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
-
I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
-
A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
-
I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.
-
We don't work with anyone.
-
It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
-
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
-
I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.
-
I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.
-
Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
-
We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have... the earth and nature.
-
Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.
-
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
