You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
EDWARD DE BONOIf you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
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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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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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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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