Alex F. Osborn Quotes

#1. Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

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#2. It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.

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#3. Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.

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#4. Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.

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#5. If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

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#6. Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

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#7. Imagination is vital to precautionary judgement.

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#8. to love and lose and still be kind

Warsan Shire

#9. Create a judgement-free environment and you'll unleash a torrent of creativity.

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#10. Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.

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#11. Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.

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#12. Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.

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#13. As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

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#14. Creativity is the production of meaning by synthesis.

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#15. Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

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#16. I'd rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the will of God.

David Livingstone

#17. We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.

Giovanni Ribisi

#18. Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.

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#19. When you get into the third or fourth generation of Latino immigrants to the United States, you see the kids speaking more English than Spanish, and it's important that we don't lose our identity, our language.

Thalia

#20. What kind of a life could one have, after all, if a family allowed itself to be torn apart-by war, by necessitous circumstances, or a wedge driven into the heart by a crises of trust?

Geraldine Brooks

#21. It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.

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#22. I really believe in a globalist agenda, but globalization isn't just allowing companies to trade freely all over the world. It's about what types of rights and responsibilities come with that.

Noreena Hertz

#23. Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.

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