34 ordspråk av Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono
 It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place. |
| 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. |
| Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. |
| Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. |
| 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... |
| Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced. |
| People should realize we're jerks just like them. |
| Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. |
| Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. |
| The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. |
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