Quotes by Edward de Bono

Edward Charles Francis Publius 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.

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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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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

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Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

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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.

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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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