Alex Faickney Osborn (May 24, 1888 – May 5, 1966) was an advertising executive and the author of the creativity technique named brainstorming.
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.
Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.
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.
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!
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.
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.
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 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.
Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.
Imagination is vital to precautionary judgement.
Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
Creativity is the production of meaning by synthesis.
Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.
Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.
Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.
Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.
Observation capitalizes inspiration.
Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.