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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
— Edward De Bono
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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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.
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We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
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Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas ...
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You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.
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Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future
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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
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Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.
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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity. — Edward De Bono
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing out what was wrong.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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I could never be a politician because I think I'm too selfish, and I think I like to have fun.. the right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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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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We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.
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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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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 myth.
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Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after.
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People should realize we're jerks just like them.
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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking ... asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
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You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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If you understand the system you can design appropriate action.
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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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