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 BONOCreativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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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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