The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
EDWARD DE BONOThe effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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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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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
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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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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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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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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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