A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
EDWARD DE BONOHappiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn’t about charity, it’s about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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