Applied imagination: principles and pro...
A source page for quotes linked to Alex Faickney Osborn.
“Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.”
“Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.”
“It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.”
“Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!”
“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.”
“It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.”
“Observation capitalizes inspiration.”
“Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.”
“Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.”
“Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.”
“Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.”