The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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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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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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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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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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