A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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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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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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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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Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.
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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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Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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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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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
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