What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
EDWARD DE BONOIt is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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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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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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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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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
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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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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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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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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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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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