If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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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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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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
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When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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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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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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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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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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