Julia Cameron Quotes

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life.

I look at each day as a chance to move one notch above yesterday - whether it's in service quality, delivery, speed, or any other aspect of the business.

In my career the push has always been to take another step, to try something new.

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.

I'm continuing to grow in this league. I think I'm getting better each and every day.

I'm always trying to do things better than I've done them before, do them faster than I've done them before.

I don't want to work more. I want to do limited but good work.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.

Ask yourself: given everything you have to do, is there a way that we can make this better?

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.

I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things "like we've always done them."

This happens to me every couple of years. I'll look at someone I respect and I'll realize that he's outworking me. It changes the way I behave for the next half decade.

Never confuse activity with accomplishment.