Julia Cameron Quotes

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

Julia Cameron

• Faith
• Control
• Creativity

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Country
  • Greatest
  • Grit

• According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Decision
  • Research
  • Alcohol

• For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Mom

• I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • House
  • Woman
  • Write

• The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Morning

• In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Difficult

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• I fed my ego, but not my soul.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Soul
  • Ego
  • My Soul

• I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Value
  • Exercise
  • Tired

• The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Me
  • Cool

• If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • You
  • Like
  • Talk

• I stuck my dick in this game like a rapist. They call me 'Slim Roethlisberger'!

  

  Eminem
  • Game

• A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

  

  Aesop
  • Peace
  • Anxiety

• Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Art

• Our most fundamental social need, it turns out, to my amazement, is love. Now, I'm not a hippie-dippie whatever. If you look at the literature, our most fundamental need for children is an environment of maximum love, and that they can be hugged, kissed, and loved. That's what humanises us and allows us to realise our whole dimension.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Children
  • Environment
  • Literature

• I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • School
  • High
  • House

• One of the things that's really exciting from my perspective is that Canada is one of the major spacefaring nations. The list of our achievements is profound and significant, and it's not just in robotics, it's also in the life-sciences research experiments that take place on board and other space-science experiments. I'd love to see Canada go from being a major spacefaring nation in low-Earth-orbit missions to those beyond, making sure we're part of those missions to Mars - not just from a technology perspective, but sending humans into beyond-Earth orbit.

  

  Dafydd Williams
  • Technology
  • Perspective
  • Profound

• Given the cost of borrowings and the $100 billion in Government reserves, there is no reason for us to borrow. We should review the situation carefully. Besides, borrowings are possible, but we must understand what is more profitable at this point.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Reason
  • Situation
  • Billions

• Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Creativity
  • Go
  • Letting Go

• I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • People
  • Believe
  • Free

• I am a micromanager, and I love being involved in every detail of my life, but in the big picture, you realize how little control you have. 'Air I Breathe' is about those moments of surrender where you get to something that is bigger than you, and you don't have answers for it.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Life
  • Control
  • Moments

• Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

  

  Julia Cameron
  • Faith
  • Control
  • Creativity