Alex Osborn Quotes

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

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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. Who was the real Adrian? The oddly charming man who'd asked me for a date right after he kidnapped me? The heroic one who'd saved my life two times in four days? Or the surly one who acted like I was a venereal disease he couldn't wait to be cured of?

Jeaniene Frost

#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. Imagination is vital to precautionary judgement.

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

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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. 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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#17. Why did thee call that hell-goat Mephistopheles? asked McTavish one day.

Terry Pratchett

#18. My names were hand-me-downs too: girl, the creature, or, most often, you there.

Emma Donoghue

#19. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Edmund Waller

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

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#21. Time is indeed the ultimate gift. It is not available for sale and there is never any extra, so it must be used with purpose before it runs out.

Christopher Mart

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

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