Brenda Ueland Quotes

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

I thought if I didn't write my own show, I'll rust.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.

Without creation, what are we but stalled in life?

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

To change, to convert? Why bother?

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

My 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' type attitude might have held me back and made me complacent.

It is important for the creative juices to find an outlet, otherwise they stagnate.

The more time you have, you should dedicate it to do creative work.

I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.

I wake up with new dreams every day...more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me.

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

. . . escape is easier than change.

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.