Alex Faickney Osborn Quotes
Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
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My goal as an actor is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the truth in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing music. But in a way, performing your own music, it’s easier to find the truth in it, because it’s coming from yourself. There’s no translation needed.
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)
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And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.
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I used to drive myself crazy by thinking, three days later, 'Ugh, why didn't I play it like that? Ugh, now that line makes sense to me.'
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My whole life has been one of seeking experience.
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Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour.
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I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.
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I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.
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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
