A good design is not a democratic consensus.
EDWARD DE BONOThe power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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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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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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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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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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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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