The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
EDWARD DE BONOEffectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.
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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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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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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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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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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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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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