Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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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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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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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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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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