Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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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A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Creative 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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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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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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