Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
EDWARD DE BONOI think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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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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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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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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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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