Roger von Oech
Roger von Oech
Roger von Oechis an American speaker, conference organizer, author, and toy-maker whose focus has been on the study of creativity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth6 February 1948
CountryUnited States of America
Roger von Oech quotes about
certainly mother necessity
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
life
Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.
ideas environment born
New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.
crazy advice mind
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.
inspirational morning school
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.
ideas ifs dies
If you don't execute your ideas, they die.
inspirational life-is-like trying
Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.
junkyard destination ultimate
Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.
thinking way becoming
The worlds of thought and action overlap. What you think has a way of becoming true.
discovery close-relationship
There is a close relationship between the "ha-ha" of humor and the "aha!" of discovery.
answers looks right-answers
Look for the second right answer.
real lying ideas
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.
attitude lazy answers
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!
mistake creative-juices locks
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.