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.
EDWARD DE BONOI’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce 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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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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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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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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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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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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