Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
EDWARD DE BONOIt is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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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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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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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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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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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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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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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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