19 Quotes by Alex Faickney Osborn

Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.

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

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

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

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

Creativity is the production of meaning by synthesis.

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.

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

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