You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
EDWARD DE BONOMock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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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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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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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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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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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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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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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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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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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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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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Lateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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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 quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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