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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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.
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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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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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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 was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
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I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.
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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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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination of the heart.
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Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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I feel good, actually. But I needed to start looking after my body a bit more. I’ve started to get a bit of arthritis in my hands. I’ve got to be fit. I’ve taken a lot of inspiration from the way that Bruce has fought his way back to health. He’s a strong man, Bruce.
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I love books that stand the test of time.
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Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.
