Roger von Oech Quotes

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

My imagination ran 24/7, and to me, every problem was a challenge to solve and new product to create. It wasn't until I started teaching that I realized that not everyone's head worked the same way.

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

Creativity is just connecting things.

I think I was always inspired by seeing a problem, and finding a solution.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.

The hero is the one with ideas.

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.

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.