You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
EDWARD DE BONOYou cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
EDWARD DE BONOThe system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
EDWARD DE BONOThe Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
EDWARD DE BONOYou cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
EDWARD DE BONOMost people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
EDWARD DE BONOIntelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
EDWARD DE BONOAs competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
EDWARD DE BONOMan owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
EDWARD DE BONOCreativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
EDWARD DE BONOCreativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
EDWARD DE BONOThere is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
EDWARD DE BONOSometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
EDWARD DE BONOSome people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
EDWARD DE BONODon’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
EDWARD DE BONOCreativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
EDWARD DE BONOI 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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