Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
EDWARD DE BONOSome 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.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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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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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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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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One 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.
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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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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Lateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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