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.
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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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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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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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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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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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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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
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