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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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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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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We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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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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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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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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