The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
EDWARD DE BONOYou can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
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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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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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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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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 wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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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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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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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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