Quotes from Edward de Bono

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.

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.

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.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.

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

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.