Roger Von Oech Quotes

• Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

  Roger Von Oech

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  Tags in Happiness

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

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  Tags in World, Advantage, Think

• 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.

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  Tags in Learn, Remember

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

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

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  Tags in Process, Think

• It’s important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

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It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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  Tags in Ideas

• 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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  Tags in Discovered, Idea

• If you don’t execute your ideas, they die.

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  Tags in Ideas, Die

• 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

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  Tags in Point, Trying

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

  Roger Von Oech

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Want

• 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

  Topics in Advice

Roger Von Oech (12)

Birth:	16th February, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Consultant, Inventor, Speaker, Writer

About

Roger von Oech is an American speaker, conference organizer, author, and toy-maker whose focus has been on the study of creativity.

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