A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
EDWARD DE BONOYou cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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