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

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  Funny, Wisdom, Humorous

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

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  Mentor, Different, Digging

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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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• 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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• Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

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  Perfect, Car, May

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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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• 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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• 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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  Mean, Doe, Alternatives

  "Six Thinking Hats". Book by Edward de Bono, 1985.

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• An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

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  Knowing, Decision, Judgement

  Edward de Bono (2017). “Simplicity”, p.30, Penguin UK

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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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  Perseverance, Time, Helping Others

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• Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

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  Communication, Ignorance, Perception

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• America is not just a country, it's an idea.

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  Country, 4th Of July, Ideas

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