Best Quotes by Edward de Bono (Top 10)
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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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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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.
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We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
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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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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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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Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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