The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
EDWARD DE BONOTo deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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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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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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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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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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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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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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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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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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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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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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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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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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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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Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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