You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
EDWARD DE BONOOnly the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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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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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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