Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
EDWARD DE BONOComplexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
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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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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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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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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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