You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
EDWARD DE BONOCreativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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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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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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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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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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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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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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