The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
EDWARD DE BONOLogic will never change emotion or perception.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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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My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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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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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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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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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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