What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
EDWARD DE BONOI’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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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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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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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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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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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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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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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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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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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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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
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We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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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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