Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
EDWARD DE BONOTeaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
EDWARD DE BONOChild 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.
EDWARD DE BONOThe vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
EDWARD DE BONOOne very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
EDWARD DE BONOI’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
EDWARD DE BONOCreativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
EDWARD DE BONOYou cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
EDWARD DE BONOThe power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
EDWARD DE BONOIf you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
EDWARD DE BONOThere 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.
EDWARD DE BONOEvery valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
EDWARD DE BONOTo be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
EDWARD DE BONOThinking 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.
EDWARD DE BONOIf you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
EDWARD DE BONOWe may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
EDWARD DE BONOWhat is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
EDWARD DE BONO