The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
EDWARD DE BONOPossibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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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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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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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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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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