Alex Faickney Osborn famous quotes

03-30-2025

Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn

#Reading #Imagination #Bread
Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn

#Mother #Fun #Father
As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn

#Law #Creative #Alternatives
If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn

#Education #Fishing #May
Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn

#Imagination #Worry #Design
Imagination is vital to precautionary judgement.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn

#Imagination #Judgement
Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn

#Imagination #Endeavor #Humans
Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn

#Creativity #Imagination #Effort
Observation capitalizes inspiration.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn

#Inspiration #Observation
It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn

#Creativity #Thinking #Ideas
Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn

#Creativity #Imagination #Creative
Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn

#Believe #Thinking #Effort
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

#Appreciation #Art #Flower
Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn

#Appreciation #Ideas #Effort
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn

#Appreciation #Flower #Creativity

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