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Edward de Bono

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
— Edward de Bono different
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
— Edward de Bono motivation
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 change
There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.
— Edward de Bono anger
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
— Edward de Bono creativity
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
— Edward de Bono men
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
— Edward de Bono thinking
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 life
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 intelligence
If you never change your mind, why have one?
— Edward de Bono change
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
— Edward de Bono time
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 success
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
— Edward de Bono you
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 action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
— Edward de Bono time
Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono man
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 is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
— Edward de Bono belief
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
— Edward de Bono happiness
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
— Edward de Bono men
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
— Edward de Bono action
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 humor
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono man
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
— Edward de Bono history
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 future
A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.
— Edward de Bono pain
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
— Edward de Bono memory
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 ideas
I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
— Edward de Bono art

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