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.
EDWARD DE BONOMy 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.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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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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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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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
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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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