Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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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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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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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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It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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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 analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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