Alex Faickney Osborn Quotes

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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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Thought
  • Loved
  • Brazil

• I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Culture

• I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Television

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • China
  • Egg

• After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Service
  • Army
  • Medical

• I have to have coffee in the morning.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Morning
  • Coffee

• My sister had some ailment and convulsions that she suffered from, and she had been sent to some place to go and get healed there. She was brought back and prayed for by those people. She recovered; in fact, she grew to be an evangelist in her own right, healing people and traveling around.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • She
  • Sister

• The reason Wilde did his best work after turning homosexual is that women simply reinforced his own feminine sentimentality. … Heterosexuality inhibited his imagination because woman is physically and psychologically internal.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Women
  • Imagination

• Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party-whether he realizes it or not-must always come out the worse.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Party
  • Balance

• We'll be raising our hands  Shining up to the sky  Cause we've got the fire fire fire  And we gonna let it burn

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Fire
  • Sky

• Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Space
  • Technology
  • Road

• Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• The people I've known who've done great things of that type - you know, building hospitals, running schools - are very humble people. They give their lives to the project.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• Scientists say, 'There is no such thing as time; gravity is a dust from another universe, and outside our own universe are many, many universes in all directions.' They speculate that attached to these universes are probably 6,000 planets identical to Earth. So are there things living out there? Animals, people, anything?

  

  James Rosenquist
  • People
  • Time
  • Earth

• I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

  

  Adelaide Kane
  • She
  • Character
  • Hate

• No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Cat

• Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today.

  

  John Ensign
  • Today
  • Justice
  • Goal

• Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • World
  • Book
  • Rewarding

• At this time, space was supposed to be filled with an ether, a substance which might well serve, among other functions, to transmit forces across space. So long as such an ether could be called on, the transmission of force to a distance was easy to understand; it was like ringing a distant bell by pulling a bell-rope.

  

  James Jeans
  • Time
  • Long
  • Space

• My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Simple

• Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Written
  • Mathematics
  • Great Book

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Creative
  • Successes