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Way Quotes by 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…
- What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
- 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…
- We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.
- Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
- Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to…
- 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…
- A question is a polite way of demanding something.
- 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…
- Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
- The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
- Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
- 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…
- 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…
- We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out…
- We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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