You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
EDWARD DE BONOYou can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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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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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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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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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 awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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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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Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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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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