The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
EDWARD DE BONOTo develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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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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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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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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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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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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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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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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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