Best Quotes by Edward de Bono (Top 10)

  1. If you never change your mind, why have one?
  2. 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.
  3. Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
  4. 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.
  5. Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
  6. 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.
  7. The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.
  8. 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.
  9. An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
  10. If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

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