The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
EDWARD DE BONOIt is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new 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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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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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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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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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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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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