Quotes by Edward De Bono

The following are quotes from Edward De Bono:

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

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.

Politics when I am in it, makes me sick.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

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.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. 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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