Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
EDWARD DE BONOHumor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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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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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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