It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
EDWARD DE BONOWe need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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.
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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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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
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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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Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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