List of Roger von Oech Quotes

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Roger Von Oech
Total Quotes 28
Am i getting lazy? am i too busy? am i becoming arrogant? am i getting timid? if you answer 'yes' to any one of these questions, that's your warning to kick that attitude!
Attitude Lazy Arrogant
It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.
Mistake Creative Juices Locks
Open your mind up to things that have no connection with the problem you're trying to solve: subscribe to an unusual magazine; spend a morning at an elementary school; go to work two hours early; test drive an exotic car; attend a city council meeting; ...try an indonesian recipe.
Inspirational Morning School
There is a close relationship between the "ha-ha" of humor and the "aha!" of discovery.
Discovery Close Relationship
Most burning issues generate far more heat than light.
Light Issues Burning
The worlds of thought and action overlap. what you think has a way of becoming true.
Thinking Way Becoming
The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. at still other times, they're critical and faultfinding. and finally they're doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals.
Wall People Goal
If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.
Errors Ideas Use
Here's my advice: go ahead and be whacky. get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing.
Crazy Advice Mind
We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' what the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.
Dream Teacher Growing Up
Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.
Real Lying Keys
When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.
Thinking
  • Born: February 16, 1948
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