If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
EDWARD DE BONOIf you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
EDWARD DE BONOThe mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
EDWARD DE BONOI 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.
EDWARD DE BONOMost of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
EDWARD DE BONOComplexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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 BONOIf you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
EDWARD DE BONOIntelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
EDWARD DE BONOThe effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
EDWARD DE BONOThe image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
EDWARD DE BONOCreative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
EDWARD DE BONOMy thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
EDWARD DE BONOCreativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
EDWARD DE BONOWhat the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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 BONORemoving 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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