Roger von Oech Quotes

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

When you're successful at something, you think that you need to continue to do what you're doing to get the same result. But I think in order to get better, sometimes you need some failures.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

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 to try a new approach.

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.

Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.

Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.

It's okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them.

Mistakes happen, and then you try to overcome those. I like that process.

Sometimes, we find what we want by also finding out what you don't want. All of that is trial and error. Once you're in that pit, the trial and error is important. It's up to us; we've got to keep moving forward.

For me, failure is not a bad thing because it teaches you how to succeed.

You make mistakes to learn from them.