42 Quotes by Roger Von Oech

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

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.

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 morning at an elementary school; go to work two hours early; test drive an exotic car; attend a city council meeting; ...try an Indonesian recipe.

Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.