It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
EDWARD DE BONOOnce a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn’t have the established route to it.
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When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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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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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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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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Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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