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.
EDWARD DE BONOThe music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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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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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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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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Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.
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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 discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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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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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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