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Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
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Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.
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The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.
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Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he made it all anyway. He didn't let the aardvark convince him he had no business designing creatures. He didn't make a puffer fish and get discouraged, no, the maker made things - and still does.
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Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.
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Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.
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Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
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Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.
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Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
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At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.
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We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.
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We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.
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As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.
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When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.
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Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.
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Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the Greek, filled with God - is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself.
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If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.
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Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.
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Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.
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My heart holds the world in tender awe.
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Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.
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