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Edward De Bono Inspirational Quotes (90)

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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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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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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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It is well known that problem avoidance is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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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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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'
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Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.
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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
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The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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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 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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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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