Edward de Bono Men Quotations

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.

We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.

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.

America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that brings with it equality, but equality even though it's the highest calling, is the hardest to reach. The idea that anything is possible, that's one of the reasons why I'm a fan of America. It's like hey, look there's the moon up there, let's take a walk on it, bring back a piece of it. That's the kind of America that I'm a fan of.

You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

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.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.