Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
Edward de Bono
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
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
Thinking
Motor
Existing
Wheels
Habits
Excellent
Car
Habit
Enough
Rear
More quotes by Edward de Bono
Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
Edward de Bono
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic simplicity after understanding is simple.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward de Bono
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
Edward de Bono
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
Edward de Bono
America is not just a country, it's an idea.
Edward de Bono
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.
Edward de Bono
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
Edward de Bono
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Edward de Bono
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.
Edward de Bono
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.
Edward de Bono
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
Edward de Bono
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
Edward de Bono
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.
Edward de Bono
Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.
Edward de Bono
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Edward de Bono
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.
Edward de Bono
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.'
Edward de Bono
Do we have the will to make poverty history?
Edward de Bono
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.
Edward de Bono