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• Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.

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  Thinking, Enough, Habit

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• It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

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  Perception, Mind, Attention

  Edward de Bono (2016). “The Happiness Purpose”, p.70, Random House

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• As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

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  Creativity, Men, Doubt

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

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• Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better

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  Thinking, Skills, Important

  Edward de Bono (2017). “Six Thinking Hats”, p.7, Penguin UK

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• A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

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  Memories, Doe, Criminal Mind

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• Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.

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  Spring, Ideas, Immortality

  Edward de Bono (2014). “Lateral Thinking: An Introduction”, p.15, Random House

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• Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.

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  Two, Suits You, Perception

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• Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

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  Mind, Facts, Commodity

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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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• I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions between the different people I am. Now I realize that is who I am. I do feel I'm getting closer to the song in my head. I wasn't looking for grace. But luckily grace was looking for me.

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  Inspirational, Song, Thinking

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• Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.

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  Confusion, Focus, Simplicity

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• Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.

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  Education, Play, Analysis

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• A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.

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  Inspirational, Support, Atheism

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

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• A question is a polite way of demanding something.

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  Way, Polite

  Edward de Bono (2010). “How To Have A Beautiful Mind”, p.88, Random House

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• To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

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  Future, Analysis, Possibility

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• It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.

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  Important, Doe, Firsts

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

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• Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

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  Happiness, Needs, I Can

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• You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them.

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  Underwear, Conscious, Streets

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• Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.

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  Real, Doubt, Sacred

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

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• A good design is not a democratic consensus.

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  Business, Motivation, Design

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• Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.

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  Creativity, People, Worthwhile

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• To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.

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  Jesus, Compassion, Christ

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• Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

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  Education, Teaching, Math

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• The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.

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  Running, Art, Turn Me

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