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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.

Alex Faickney Osborn

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

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 better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

Alex Faickney Osborn

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

Alex Faickney Osborn

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.

Alex Faickney Osborn

Alex Faickney Osborn

Alex Faickney Osborn

Born: May 24, 1888

Died: May 13, 1966 (aged 77)

Bio: Alex Faickney Osborn was an advertising executive and the author of the creativity technique named brainstorming.

Known for:

Applied Imagination (1953)
Your Creative Power (1940)
A Short Course in Advertising (1921)

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