On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn’t about charity, it’s about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
EDWARD DE BONOStudies 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.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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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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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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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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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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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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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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