Alex Faickney Osborn Quotes
Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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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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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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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 feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.
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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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I've started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. I've missed out on a lot in life. I don't regret this, of course. Nevertheless, I need to make up for lost time.
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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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Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.
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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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They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.
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To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.
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Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.
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You can really do more than you think you can do.
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It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
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Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
