The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
EDWARD DE BONOEveryone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn’t have the established route to it.
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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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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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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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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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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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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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