Roger von Oech Quotes

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

For myself and my attitude, I have, every day, to work on it.

My time is far too valuable for me to spend any of it trying to improve myself.

Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.

If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

I've learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.

The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.

Go be the next humblest version of yourself.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.

Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.

Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves.

It's tough when you started out as young as I did to look back and see how far I've come. I try to be easy on myself and go 'Look man, you were younger, you were learning; you learn, you grow.' But I'm not my best judge. I always feel like my best work is still ahead of me.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

I have not been the witness I wanted to be.