Roger von Oech Quotes
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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…
Atrophies
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If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or two. One of…
Alternative
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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…
Answer
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Flexibility is a requirement for survival.
Flexibility
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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…
Afraid
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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.
Creative
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By the time the average person finishes college, he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes, and exams. The right answer approach becomes…
All
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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.
Discovered
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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
Astray
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Look for the second right answer.
Answer
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If you don't execute your ideas, they die.
Die
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Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
Advantage
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New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.
Born
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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…
Answer
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Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.
Arise
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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.
Advice
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Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
Both
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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,…
Creative
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Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.
Avoid
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Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.
Almost Everything
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