You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
EDWARD DE BONOAmerica is not just a country, it’s an idea.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Removing 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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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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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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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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