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Edward de Bono Quotes

«If you never change your mind, why have one?»
«Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.»
«If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.»
«Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.»
«We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.»
«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...»
«Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.»
«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.»
«Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain»
«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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