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Inspirational Quotes by Edward de Bono
- A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
- If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
- The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
- Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
- Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
- Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
- Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
- Perception is real even when it is not reality.
- 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…
- You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future
- A question is a polite way of demanding something.
- You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
- The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
- The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
- If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
- What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
- The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
- Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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