Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
EDWARD DE BONO
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.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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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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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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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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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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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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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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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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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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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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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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