Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
EDWARD DE BONOCreativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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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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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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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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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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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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When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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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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To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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