Do we have the will to make poverty history?
EDWARD DE BONOMaybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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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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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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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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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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