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.
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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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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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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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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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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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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Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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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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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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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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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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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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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing 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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On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn’t about charity, it’s about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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