“Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging...” — Brenda Ueland Quote

“Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.”

“Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.”

“...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.”

“It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.”

“Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.”

“This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.”

“I would say that 98 percent of the time you are not going to get the role you are going after. I think that can be very discouraging.”

“My goal is to be a champion, so if there's any setbacks or anything that bad and no chance of getting it, it gets a little discouraging.”

“It's so hard going into a performance that you've worked all week for and put so much time and effort into and when a silly little simple mistake that's never happened before happens, it can be really discouraging.”

“I think the words 'vote strategically' translates in the human brain to: 'Oh I can't vote for what I want.' And that's discouraging.”

“We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.”

“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.”