An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
EDWARD DE BONOIn the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
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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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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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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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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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.
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Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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