Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
There's this mythology that parents are supposed to be parents 24/7 and are supposed to be completely fulfilled by their kids. That's not the… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
