Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
EDWARD DE BONOYou can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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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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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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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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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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The 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.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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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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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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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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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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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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