Alex Faickney Osborn Quotes
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.
Alex Faickney Osborn
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
Patrick Dempsey
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx
The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
Ovid
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Napoleon Hill
I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
Lake Bell
I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
Patrick Ness
Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
Isaac Hayes
Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'
Carly Rae Jepsen
In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.
Gavin Hood
With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
Bear Grylls
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
Zane Grey
I'm deeply saddened by a sense that whites are still superior in this country, in some sense, that if you sit at a restaurant, they're served before a Kenyan is served. If you go through customs, a white person is going to have an easier time going through customs.
Barack Obama
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
William Faulkner
I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.
Ariel Rechtshaid
Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.
Oliver Burkeman
And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded, smelled as if a great and nameless orchard had grown up overnight beyond the hills to fill the entire visible land with its warm freshness. The air felt like rain, but there were no clouds.
Ray Bradbury
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.
Alex Faickney Osborn
