What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
EDWARD DE BONORemoving the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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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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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.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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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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The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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