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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More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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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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Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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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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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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