Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
EDWARD DE BONOCreative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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Lateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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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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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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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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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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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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