Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
EDWARD DE BONOA question is a polite way of demanding something.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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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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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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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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A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
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Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.
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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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