The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
EDWARD DE BONOThe 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.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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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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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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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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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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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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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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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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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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