Roger Von Oech Quotes

#1. If you don't execute your ideas, they die." - Roger von Oech

Stephen Guise

#2. The worlds of thought and action overlap. What you think has a way of becoming true.

Roger Von Oech

#3. If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

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#4. You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

Cesare Pavese

#5. It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Roger Von Oech

#6. Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

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#9. It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

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#10. It frightens me to be in a homogeneous environment. Plus, homogenity is boring. What can you learn from that kind of environment? Friction is interesting.

Jennifer Topper

#11. I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.

Will Rogers

#12. Your income can grow only to the extent that you do.

T. Harv Eker

#13. 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!

Roger Von Oech

#14. Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Roger Von Oech

#15. What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?

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#16. Money will only make you more of what you already are.

T. Harv Eker

#17. Curses happen to even the most seasoned of princesses from time to time - " "But

M.A. Larson

#18. New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

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#19. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

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#20. Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.

Charlie Munger

#21. When you have the humility to listen to the Bible it does more than enlighten us, it transforms us.

Mario Daniel Vega

#22. Look for the second right answer.

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#23. The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.

Frank Luntz

#24. When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

Damien Rice

#25. Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

Roger Von Oech

#26. Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

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#27. Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

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#28. 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.

Roger Von Oech

#29. Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

Roger Von Oech

#30. Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

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#31. Humor helps people open up.

Roger Von Oech

#32. 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.

Roger Von Oech

#33. 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.

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#34. On another level this film talks about that. We had tremendous freedom while making this film. We never thought about marketing. It wasn't a film made to sell merchandise or products or to reach millions of people around the world. It was a film made to say what I really felt.

Alex Abreu

#35. Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.

Roger Von Oech

#36. Necessity is stronger than duty.

Seneca The Younger

#37. Most burning issues generate far more heat than light.

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#38. 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.

Roger Von Oech

#39. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#40. 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.

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#41. When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.

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