"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."

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Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1948). “Your Creative Power: How to Use Imagination”

Alex Faickney Osborn

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Effort Quotes

“All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.”
“When my mother was trying to teach me how to make friends when I was a kid, she'd bring girls over to the house and I'd give them all my clothes. Nothing changes, I still do it. And then I wonder, "Where is that really nice Isabel Marant dress that I spent a fortune on? Oh my god, I gave it to Liza."”
“To have something which one particularly wants to do is more important than anything else. It is even more important than succeeding in that thing you want to do. In fact it does not matter if you fail, but it does matter that you do or do not want to do something.”
“There will always be somebody more successful, more beautiful, more talented. You have to realize, you're not running their race. You're running your race.”
“What I think is incredible about what Marvel has done and with Jon Favreau I think really maybe helped come up with, is what the template is.”
“[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.”
“Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away”

Source : Farley Mowat (1990). “The New Founde Land”, Seal Books
“I'm always on the look out for 'the good image'. I'm like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate everything - but I like to think I'm working in the Pop Art tradition.”

Source : Source: louderthanwar.com

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