Brenda Ueland Quotes about Listening

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

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

Ideas, Listening, Grows

Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

Brenda Ueland

Thinking, Listening, Knows

Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

Brenda Ueland

Believe, Listening, Alive

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

Thinking, People, Listening

Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.

Brenda Ueland

Reading, Talking, Listening

Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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

People, Advice, Listening

Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press