Julia Cameron Quotes

I think for me I'm always... I find myself to be a very curious person when something interests me and I find that I'm attracted to that mystery.

I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.

When I'm curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I've really explored it, I'm OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple.

Just go out and do things, and those things that continue to spark an interest, do more of.

I'm curious about life, period.

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

There is so much extraordinary opportunity if you're curious, if you're interested.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.

I don't know whether I have ideas all the time. I think I'm curious about things all the time; I think I'm always curious, and I think I'm always interested in whatever passes by, and I know I tend to think about things, and I tend to talk about things, and sometimes that takes root and gives me something to chase.