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If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.
Roger von Oech
If you don’t execute your ideas, they die.
Roger von Oech
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
What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?
Roger von Oech
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
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
Roger von Oech
Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.
Roger von Oech
Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.
Roger von Oech
Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
Roger von Oech
Look for the second right answer.
Roger von Oech
New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.
Roger von Oech
Flexibility is a requirement for survival.
Roger von Oech
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
Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.
Roger von Oech
When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.
Roger von Oech
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
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
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
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.
Roger von Oech
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
Most burning issues generate far more heat than light.
Roger von Oech
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