The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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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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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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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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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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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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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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