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.
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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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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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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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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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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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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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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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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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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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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