If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
EDWARD DE BONOCreativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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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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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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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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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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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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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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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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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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A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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