Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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I 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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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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As 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.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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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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Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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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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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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