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.
EDWARD DE BONOThe winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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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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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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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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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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