Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
EDWARD DE BONOAn idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Everyone 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.
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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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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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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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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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The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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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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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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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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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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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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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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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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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
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