Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono is a Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor and consultant. He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote the book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth19 May 1933
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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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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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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.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.
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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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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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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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Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.