Edward de Bono Quotes - Page 2

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

  Edward de Bono

  Motivational, Depression, Mind

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

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• The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

  Edward de Bono

  Ideas, Needs, Bars

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

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• Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.

  Edward de Bono

  Believe, Thinking, Play

  Edward de Bono (2017). “Six Thinking Hats”, p.106, Penguin UK

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• To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

  Edward de Bono

  Successful, Mad, Growth

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

  Edward de Bono

  Mentor, Different, Digging

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• What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

  Edward de Bono

  Important, Urgent, Precedence

  Edward de Bono (2017). “Future Positive”, p.196, Random House

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

  Edward de Bono

  Past, Design, Decision

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• Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Perception, Brain

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• Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

  Edward de Bono

  Happiness, Positive Attitude, Differences

  In Observer 12 June 1977

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• Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.

  Edward de Bono

  Mean, Simplicity, Effort

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• The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.

  Edward de Bono

  Data, Ideas, Analysis

  Edward De Bono (1991). “I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic”, Penguin Group USA

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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.

  Edward de Bono

  Marriage, Intelligent, Thinking

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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.

  Edward de Bono

  Real, Self Esteem, Mean

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

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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.

  Edward de Bono

  Real, People, Enough

  Edward de Bono (2017). “I Am Right, You Are Wrong”, p.235, Penguin UK

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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.

  Edward de Bono

  Believe, School, Data

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

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• Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.

  Edward de Bono

  Effectiveness, Tools, Purpose

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• Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

  Edward de Bono

  Fun, Creativity, Interesting

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

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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.

  Edward de Bono

  Business, Way Forward, Design

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• The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

  Edward de Bono

  Reflection, People, Mind

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• To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Skills, Should

  Edward De Bono (2006). “De Bono's Thinking Course”, p.123, Pearson Education

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

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

  Edward de Bono

  Learning, Knowledge, Management

  Edward De Bono (1991). “I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic”, Penguin Group USA

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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.

  Edward de Bono

  Mean, Doe, Alternatives

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

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

  Edward de Bono

  Future, Design, Ifs

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• There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Media, Information

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