Brenda Ueland Quotes

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes.

There's always room for improvement. I incorporate the lessons I learned from my mistakes and move forward.

You can't always do that which you can do in your sleep. That doesn't fulfill an artist. You're looking for places where you can grow, in some way, whether it's a large way or a small way. I want to grow as an artist, as a person and as a woman. I want to enjoy myself and my life and the company that I'm keeping. I want to bring something to the table that's different than anything else would bring, but that has its place and value, and then keep moving.

You have to have the kind of personality where you're resilient and you can get up and keep moving and learn what there is. What I tell my employees is, 'I want you to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. But, when we make a mistake, let's all study it. Let's all learn from it. After that, we want to make different mistakes. We don't want to keep making the same mistakes.'

The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.

Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong.

We are alive and need to take risks. And if we fail, so what? Who cares? It doesn't matter. Learn and move on without judgement.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

I am willing to move out of my comfort zone and experience life in a new way.

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.

I've done some stupid things. You just have to take responsibility, go, That was embarrassing, and move forward as best you can.

I think the world is changing and all that matters is that I'm creating things.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.

In my work, I'm passionate about trying different things and being okay if I mess up. Now I'm trying to bring that into my own life.

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

It just feels like I'm on the right path musically and I'm in the right mindset to continue out my mission in music because I'm not putting myself in a box.

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

I come alive when there is a chance to learn or do something different.

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

I grew up in a sad, depressed place. I got out. Poetry saved my life.

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.

I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection.

[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

We're all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key.