America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
EDWARD DE BONOThe effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
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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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We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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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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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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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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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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