An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
EDWARD DE BONOA good design is not a democratic consensus.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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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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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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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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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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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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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
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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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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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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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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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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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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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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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Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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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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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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