Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
EDWARD DE BONOIf you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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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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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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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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