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.
EDWARD DE BONOThe need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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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We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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 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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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn’t have the established route to it.
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