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Applied Imagination (1953)
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Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
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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.
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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.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Alex Faickney Osborn
Born:
May 24, 1888
Died:
May 13, 1966
(aged 77)
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