Edward de Bono Quotes

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• Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.

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  Teamwork, Strong, Creativity

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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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  Inspirational, Education, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1982). “Lateral thinking for management: a handbook”

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• The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

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  Preparation, Mind, Executives

  Edward de Bono (2017). “Teach Yourself To Think”, p.115, Penguin UK

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• Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

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  Thinking, Skills, Brainstorming

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  If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

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  Inspirational, Opportunity, Waiting

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future

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  Thinking, Quality, Our Future

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• You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

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  Past, Differences, Design

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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, Imagination, Creative

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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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  Change, Attitude, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1971). “The use of lateral thinking”

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• You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.

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  Looks, New Directions, Harder

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• Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

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  Funny, Wisdom, Humorous

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

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• If you never change your mind, why have one?

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  Motivational, Depression, Mind

  Edward de Bono (2010). “How To Have A Beautiful Mind”, p.166, Random House

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• Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

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  Optimistic, Thinking, Errors

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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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  Marriage, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.

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  Simple, Simplicity, Understanding

  Edward de Bono (2017). “Simplicity”, p.79, Penguin UK

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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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  Thinking, Important, Asking

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• A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

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  Ego, Battle, Should

  Edward de Bono (2010). “How To Have A Beautiful Mind”, p.5, Random House

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• (...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.

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  Real, Self Esteem, Mean

  Edward De Bono (1972). “PO: a device for successful thinking”

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• You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

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  Mentor, Different, Digging

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• You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

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  Past, Design, Decision

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• We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

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  Business, Way Forward, Design

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• The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

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  Future, Design, Ifs

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• Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Perception

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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