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Roger von Oech Quotes

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: February 6, 1948

Topics

World Think Look Take Advantage Take

I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me.

Me Enjoy Find Teach Calling While

One of the great upsides about comedy is that you're dealing with really lovely, fun material.

Great Fun Comedy You Lovely Dealing

People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they wouldn't actually make things, get their hands dirty. I don't think I'm a muse, although I think I can help pull a trigger. I really like getting my hands dirty.

People Me Think Help Hands I Can

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Power Job Balance Government Media

I don't make crappy movies. I spend two or three years making a film. I don't take myself seriously, but I take my movies very seriously.

Myself Three Movies Seriously Two

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

Start Partnership Television Movies

My daughter is full energy, like my wife and I, and strong-minded and has an opinion, like we do. And my boys, one's a bit more calm and chill, and the other is much more sensitive to things. You see this right away, when they're first born. One cried, one didn't, with the boys.

Chris Hemsworth

Daughter Wife Opinion Calm Energy

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

Arthur Honegger

Doubt Dead First No Doubt Composer

I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.

Arthur Phillips

Work Like Some Shakespeare His Lot

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

Willie Stargell

Learning Experience Proud Because

Ramifications of small decisions can be pretty large.

Small Decisions Pretty Large

I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

Sheryl Sandberg

Home Women Men Gender Bias Without

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