Edward de Bono

Edward de Bono

"Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting."
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"Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting."
Edward de Bono
"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."
Edward de Bono
"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience."
Edward de Bono
"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."
Edward de Bono
"If you never change your mind, why have one?"
Edward de Bono
"Logic will never change emotion or perception."
Edward de Bono
"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."
Edward de Bono
"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
"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car."
Edward de Bono
"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it."
Edward de Bono
"It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor."
Edward de Bono
"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."
Edward de Bono
"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."
Edward de Bono
"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."
Edward de Bono
"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
"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car."
Edward de Bono
"Think sideways!"
Edward de Bono
"A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because looked at through the myth all evidence supports that myth."
Edward de Bono
"The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance."
Edward de Bono
"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all."
Edward de Bono
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