The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
EDWARD DE BONOThe vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn’t about charity, it’s about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
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The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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