You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
EDWARD DE BONOThe need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Lateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
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The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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