Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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 may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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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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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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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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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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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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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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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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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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