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If you never change your mind, why have one?
Edward de Bono
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Edward de Bono
Age: 88 †
Born: 1933
Born: May 19
Died: 2021
Died: June 9
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
Republic of Malta
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.
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A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.
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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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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic simplicity after understanding is simple.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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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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Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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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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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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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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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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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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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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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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