Alex Faickney Osborn Quotes

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

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Creativity, Imagination, Effort

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”

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• Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Mother, Fun, Father

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• It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.

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  Ideas, Firsts, Easier

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• 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, Art, Flower

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”

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• If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

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  Education, Fishing, May

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• Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.

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  Children, Ideas, Steps

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

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• 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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  Believe, Thinking, Effort

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

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• It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

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• Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1942). “How to Think Up”

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• Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Appreciation, Ideas, Effort

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1960). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative problem-solving”

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• Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Imagination, Worry, Design

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

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• Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Imagination, Endeavor, Humans

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”

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• Observation capitalizes inspiration.

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  Inspiration, Observation, Seeing

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”, New York

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• Creativity is the production of meaning by synthesis.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Creativity, Synthesis, Productions

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Law, Creative, Alternatives

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”, New York

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• Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!

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  Flower, Creativity, Praise

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”

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• Imagination is vital to precautionary judgement.

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  Imagination, Judgement

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• Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Reading, Imagination, Bread

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1960). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative problem-solving”

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• Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Adversity, Men, Feelings

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