Brenda Ueland

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated, perhaps; and forever talked to by god and his messengers.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. You can see that when you think how the friends that really listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius as though it did us good, like ultraviolet rays.

"Since you are like no being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable."

So you see, imagination needs moodling-long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.