Top 50 Osborn Quotes
#1. There's only one problem with Osborn's breakthrough idea: group brainstorming doesn't actually work
Susan Cain
#2. We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.
[Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 341 (1966) (dissenting)]
William O. Douglas
#3. I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.
Johnny Rivers
#4. Osborn was a founding partner of the advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn (BBDO), but it was as an author that he really made his mark, beginning with the day in 1938 that a magazine editor invited him to lunch and asked what his hobby was. "Imagination," replied Osborn.
Susan Cain
#5. The trouble with entering the upper echelon is you have to work harder to stay there.
John Jay Osborn Jr.
#6. The purpose of a spirit filled life is to demonstrate the supernatural power of our living God so that the unsaved multitudes will abandon their dead gods to call upon the name of The Lord and be delivered.
T.L. Osborn
#9. No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.
Henry Fairfield Osborn
#10. The gospel of the kingdom must be preached with evidence; it must be preached as a witness.This can only be done by christians who are filled with the Holy Spirit.
T.L. Osborn
#11. Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
Alex Faickney Osborn
#12. How can we call ourselves a church and not believe in healing and in miracles? I cannot read four pages anywhere in the Bible without encountering miracles! And the God of the bible is the same today!
T.L. Osborn
#14. Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.
Stephanie Osborn
#17. Create a judgement-free environment and you'll unleash a torrent of creativity.
Alex Osborn
#19. 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.
Alex Faickney Osborn
#20. If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.
Alex Faickney Osborn
#21. Speaking in tongues is not enough.If we turn men from unchristian religions to christianity we must produce miracles which convince men that Christ lives and He is real today.
T.L. Osborn
#22. Yes, I was deprived of sleep, especially during the first few days, ... However, there was nothing physical, no touching or anything like that.
Shane Osborn
#23. Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.
Alex Faickney Osborn
#24. Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.
Alex Faickney Osborn
#25. Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one's adversaries to underestimate one's abilities."
~Sherlock Holmes
Stephanie Osborn
#26. My feelings for him grow with every touch, every kiss, every heartbeat. I know he truly is mine, and I truly am his." - Jeni
K.E. Osborn
#29. Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God's desire to heal you.
T.L. Osborn
#31. 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.
Alex Faickney Osborn
#32. Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.
Alex Faickney Osborn
#33. Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.
Frederick Osborn
#34. Sometimes you gotta say what's in your heart... And you have to stand for what you believe. No matter what."
~'Dr. Michael C. Anders,
Stephanie Osborn
#35. The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society
Frederick Osborn
#36. You should never ask God to do what He has said He's already done, and you should never ask God to do what He has told you to do.
T.L. Osborn
#37. I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.
Henry Fairfield Osborn
#38. A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement."
~Sherlock Holmes
Stephanie Osborn
#39. It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.
Alex Faickney Osborn
#40. Only the power of the Living Christ proclaimed in demonstration of the Holy Spirit, can meet the urgent needs of humanity.
T.L. Osborn
#41. I don't believe in diets. In fact, there is no such thing as a diet. Well-fit individuals were around eons before the word "diet" even existed.
Brett Osborn
#42. The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It has long since ceased to be a theory; it is a law of Nature as universal in living things as is the law of gravitation in material things and in the motions of the heavenly spheres.
Henry Fairfield Osborn
#43. There is only one purpose of pentecost; that is to effectively evangelize lost souls.
T.L. Osborn
#44. Someone's sexuality shouldn't define who they are as a person. And I hope one day the world stops focusing so much on who people have in their beds and starts basing their opinions on people's character instead.
Jaclyn Osborn
#45. Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.
Frederick Osborn
#47. The commandments of God were intended to make Israel a distinct, and holy nation of priests to the one, true, living God so that the world would know and see who is the Lord.
Frederick Osborn
#48. 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.
Alex Faickney Osborn
#50. Tyrannosaurus is the most superb carnivorous mechanism among the terrestrial Vertebrata, in which raptorial power and speed are combined.
Henry Fairfield Osborn
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