Alex Faickney Osborn Quotes
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Creativity is the production of meaning by synthesis.
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Imagination is vital to precautionary judgement.
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It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.
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Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.
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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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Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
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Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.
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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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Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.
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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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Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.
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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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Observation capitalizes inspiration.
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Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.
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Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.
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Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.
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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now something we can turn on and off like a faucet. It is an experience and expression in our lives that must be nurtured. This nurturing process means that creativity is at once a skill, an art, and a life-style.
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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!
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Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.