Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
EDWARD DE BONOA good design is not a democratic consensus.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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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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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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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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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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My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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