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

- Alex Faickney Osborn

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

- Alex Faickney Osborn

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

- Alex Faickney Osborn

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

- Alex Faickney Osborn

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

- Alex Faickney Osborn

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 guid…

- Alex Faickney Osborn

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…

- Alex Faickney Osborn

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

- Alex Faickney Osborn

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

- Alex Faickney Osborn