Do we have the will to make poverty history?
EDWARD DE BONOCreativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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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 need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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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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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
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You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.
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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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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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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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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
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Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
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