Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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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Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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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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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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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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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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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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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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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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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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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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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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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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