Alex Faickney Osborn Quotes
Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.
Alex Faickney Osborn
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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.'
Felicity Jones
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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.
Marc Almond
Soft Cell
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.
Paloma Elsesser
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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.
Ian Frazier
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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.
Hari Kunzru
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
Mahershala Ali
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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.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung
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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.
Tabatha Coffey
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I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
Mandy Patinkin
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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.
Orhan Pamuk
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Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.
George Packer
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How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... As a youth I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.
Nikola Tesla
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Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18gibberish. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called 'Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You'.
Eddie Izzard
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There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.
Don McLean
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Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.
Alex Faickney Osborn
