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.
EDWARD DE BONOAs competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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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 think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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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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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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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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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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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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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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