Dorothea Brande famous quotes

03-26-2025

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Self #Bears #Unhappiness
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Inspirational #Imagination #Over You
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Positive #Impossible #Failing
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Inspirational #Frustration #Faces
Act as though it is impossible to fail.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Success #Impossible #Failing
The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now the other ...
-- Dorothea Brande

#Different #Able #Facets
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Differences #People #Problem
In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Running #Years #Differences
it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Done #Bondage #Humdrum
Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Moral #Stills
The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Party #Teaching #Prejudice
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Religious #Games #Greek
In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Women #Feelings #Outcomes
Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Writing #Mind #Arms
Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Aids #Force
Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Philosophy #Mind #May
So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Ideas #Long
If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you will be able to write a story which is honest and original and unique.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Believe #Writing #Unique
Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Character #Artist #Two
Old habits are strong and jealous.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Strong #Jealous #Old Habits
Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Writing #Solitude #Muscles
A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Half #Problem

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