Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
EDWARD DE BONOTo deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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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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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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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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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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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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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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