We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
EDWARD DE BONOWhen 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.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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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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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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