Alex Faickney Osborn Quotes
Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
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I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
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The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.
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I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
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Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
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There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
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I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
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What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.
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The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained.
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In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
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Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.
