Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
EDWARD DE BONOA characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
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The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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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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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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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 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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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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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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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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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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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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The 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.’
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Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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