When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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More Edward de Bono Quotes
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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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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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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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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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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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 purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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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.
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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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Lateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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