People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
EDWARD DE BONOIf you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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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.
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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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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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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 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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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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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.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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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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I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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