Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.
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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 a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.Brenda Ueland
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
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So you see, imagination needs moodlinglong, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
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All children have creative power.
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Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
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