The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
EDWARD DE BONOCreative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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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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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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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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