Alex Faickney Osborn Quotes

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

Alex Faickney Osborn

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• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • You
  • Football
  • Games

• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Good
  • Darkest

• I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Think
  • Living
  • Paradise

• In the end, crime doesn't pay.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • End
  • Crime
  • In The End

• When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • New

• It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Better
  • Fat
  • Skinny

• 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.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Black
  • Lawyer
  • Group

• 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.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Air

• During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Time
  • Men
  • Competition

• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Nature
  • Challenge
  • Tree

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Truth

• 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)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • World
  • Work

• 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.'

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Crazy

• My whole life has been one of seeking experience.

  

  Jerry Kramer
  • Life
  • Experience

• Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour.

  

  Charles E. Wilson

• I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Art
  • American
  • Beautiful

• I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.

  

  Kurt Browning
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Exercise

• I didn't open a restaurant, but I did go to a few cooking schools. It was too much like hard work!

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Work
  • Cooking

• If you want more people to come to the theatre, don't put the prices at £50. You have to make theatre inclusive, and at the moment the prices are exclusive. Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

  

  Catherine Tate
  • Moments
  • Theatre
  • Stars

• Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

  

  Alex Faickney Osborn
  • Imagination
  • Effort
  • Creativity