Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
EDWARD DE BONO
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn’t about charity, it’s about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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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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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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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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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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