Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
EDWARD DE BONOMany 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.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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