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Only Quotes by Edward de Bono
- 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…
- An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
- 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…
- Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of…
- Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
- Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
- One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The…
- Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of...…
- Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is…
- The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
- To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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