Roger von Oech Quotes

I just like doing things from my own head.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them.

I have been inspired by countless artists over the years, but there's also times when you just gotta make your own inspiration.

Don't follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because, you are the future of tomorrow.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

I was lucky I went to school in London because the tutors could see what to do. I knew I wanted to do something different. Why would I want to do what other people were already doing, because they would always do it better? I always wanted to work around the body. So throughout my college years, my work was quite free.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

Trends are dangerous; you will fail if you design for them. You cannot follow the work of others. I have my own DNA, my own formula. I always stay true to myself and to the brand.

Everything I've performed has been from my own head.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

We personally don't try to follow industry trends or themes. We just try and make something that we think would be cool and we want to make.

I just really like to find my own ideas.

Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.