Edward de Bono Quotes - Page 5

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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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• A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.

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  Progress, Answers, Littles

  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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• The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.

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  Church, Comfort, Spirituality

  "Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas". Book by Michka Assayas, April 21, 2005.

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• America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that brings with it equality, but equality even though it's the highest calling, is the hardest to reach. The idea that anything is possible, that's one of the reasons why I'm a fan of America. It's like hey, look there's the moon up there, let's take a walk on it, bring back a piece of it. That's the kind of America that I'm a fan of.

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  Encouragement, Responsibility, Moon

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• They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.

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  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

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  Cost, Strive, Be Prepared

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

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• Do we have the will to make poverty history?

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  Poverty

  "Brain drain must stop if poor countries are to be helped" by Larry Elliott, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2004.

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• This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.

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  Self, Ego, Favors

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• We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

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  Judging, Design, Judgement

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• Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Humour

  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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• 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.

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  Thinking, Self, People

  "Deep Thought". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 1999.

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• Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

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  Attitude, Rivers, People

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• A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

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  Ideas, Characteristics, Obvious

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• Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor car is excellent but not enough. We need to put far more emphasis on creative and design thinking. Judgement and analysis are not enough.

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  Encouragement, Thinking, Car

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• The weapons of the positive revolution are not bullets and bombs but simple human perceptions. Bullets and bombs may offer physical power but eventually will only work if they change perceptions and values. Why not go the direct route and work with perceptions and values?

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  Simple, Perception, Why Not

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• Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

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  Gratitude, Ungrateful, Negative

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• Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

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  Basketball, Education, Stars

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• In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

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  Art, Creativity, Emotional

  Edward De Bono (2010). “Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• People should realize we're jerks just like them.

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  People, Realizing, Jerk

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• I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.

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  Cute Relationship, Funny Relationship, Hair

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• The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

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  Acceptance, Thinking, Rejection

  Edward de Bono (2009). “Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity”, p.187, Penguin UK

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• The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

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  Gambling, Use, Statistics

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

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• It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions,
  not repeated assessment of their validity.

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  Assessment, Historical, Assumption

  Edward De Bono (1970). “Lateral Thinking: creativity step by step COTF MGT”

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• I'm in love with this country called "America." I'm a huge fan of America. I'm one of those annoying fans - you know, the ones that read the cd notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that. I'm that kind of fan. I've read the Declaration of Independence, and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude.

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  Country, Cds, America

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• I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

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  School, Thinking, Taught

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