Father Quote by Roger von Oech Download Open image “Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.” — Roger von Oech ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Certainly Father Father Invention Invention Play May Mother Mother Invention Mother Of Invention Necessity Necessity Mother Parenting Play Play Certainly
It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is… — Michael Hainey Copy Share Image
Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife — Jonathan Schattke Copy Share Image
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up & do them — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways. — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
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… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
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… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
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… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be. — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
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… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
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… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who divide everything into two groups, and those who don’t.” — Roger Von Oech Copy Share Image
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been… — John Denver Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast.… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
I guess, it's a father's dream for his daughter to be known around the world. — Liza Soberano Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
“I don’t know. We all have to bear things, Ari. All of us. Your father has to bear the war and what it did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
