Edward de Bono on creativity
Edward de Bono128 quotes“Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.”
Filed under
More from Edward de Bono
Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
Edward de BonoEdward 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.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono A good design is not a democratic consensus.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono 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.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono 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.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono 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.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono
Original quotes
From our community writers
The more you suffer, the more you awaken.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Keep your faith strong enough to believe that you can manifest and receive what you want.
Lisa RoseLisa Rose Home is where your soul belongs.
Ana SoulfulAna Soulful The right person will never get tired of you.
Sophie SmithSophie Smith You thought it wouldn’t live again. But it will live again.
Carisa DownsCarisa Downs The world is not allowed to make a meal of you, girl. It is there for your consuming.
Nikita GillNikita Gill We all carry the heaviest anchors without anyone having a clue about it.
Aaron BellAaron Bell And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa
Meet the writers
More on creativity
I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.
Bernard ArnaultBernard Arnault Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.
Benjamin BloomBenjamin Bloom America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that’s what will get us on the right track now, as well.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train.
Ben OkriBen Okri Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson Creativity is the art of the impossible
Ben OkriBen Okri I’m always throwing out ideas, so it’s not creativity, it’s just volume.
Ben HuhBen Huh I need to find avenues to express all of my creativity. There’s always polarizing forces. Sometimes I feel like my work is going in different directions, but hopefully it’s just expanding.
Becky StarkBecky Stark
