Alex Faickney Osborn Quotes
Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
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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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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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Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour.
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Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should.
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Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.
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When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.
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A lot of my friends have told me to read 'Tao Te Ching' - a classic Chinese text on the fundamentals of Taoism.
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In my mind, I never doubted whether I was going to achieve what I wanted to do. I just had to decide what it is I wanted to do.
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Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.
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Give deliberately. Giving is at its best when it's a conscious effort that's repeatedly made.
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Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
