Roger von Oech Quotes

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

I think it's better to have ideas.

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

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.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out I just have a funny little wrinkle on the surface of my brain which makes me think about invisible train platforms.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.