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Roger von Oech Quotes

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

You Stone New Stepping Stone Error

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

Baseball Me Thought Better Tennis

I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.

Melissa Rosenberg

Work Learning Success Girl Great

Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.

Change People Me Bond Think Honor

Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.

Mirror Environment Nails Close-Up

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Fire Problem You House Nothing Eat

Every time you make a fruit crisp for me, you are my favorite person in the world. It's something delicious and warm, right out of the oven. I mean, what more could anyone want? And all you're doing is taking the best fruit of the season, putting a crumb topping on it and putting it in the oven.

Time Best Me Fruit World Warm

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

Think President Bush Elected

I have been juggling so many roles. I am a mother, too. I have three sons to take care of. I don't even know how I manage to pull it off sometimes.

Mother I Am Care Take Care Sometimes

I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, 'I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change.' Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so.

Change Mistakes Me Think Look Say

One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.

Bible Debate Prove Touch See Just

My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.

Life Quality Wife Parents Now

For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.

Donnie Wahlberg

Live Shadow New York Feeling New

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