Edward de Bono Quotes About Creativity

Quotes about: Creativity

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

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  Funny, Wisdom, Humorous

• 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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  Change, Attitude, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1971). “The use of lateral thinking”

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

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  Inspirational, Education, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1982). “Lateral thinking for management: a handbook”

• 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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  Business, Creativity, Bad Ass

  Norah Maier, Edward De Bono (1982). “Teaching the gifted, challenging the average”, Univ of Toronto

• There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

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  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

• Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.

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  Teamwork, Strong, Creativity

• An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

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  Buddhist, Creativity, Buddhism

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

• 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.

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  Motivational, Powerful, Taken

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

• 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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  Hope, Fun, Creativity

• As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

• Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Skills

  Edward De Bono (2010). “Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step”, p.3, Harper Collins

• The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

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  Powerful, Taken, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

• Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.

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  Creativity, People, Worthwhile

• Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Skills

  "Edward De Bono: 'Iraq? They Just Need to Think It Through'". Interview with Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2007.

• 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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  Creativity, Order, Imagination

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

• Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

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  Fun, Creativity, Interesting

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

• Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.

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  Hope, Creativity, Ideas

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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

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  Creativity, Giving, Achievement

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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

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  Art, Creativity, Emotional

  Edward De Bono (2010). “Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step”, p.5, Harper Collins

• Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Humour

  Edward De Bono (1991). “I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic”, Penguin Group USA

• There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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

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  Basketball, Education, Stars

• 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.

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  Creativity, Men, Doubt

  Edward De Bono (1982). “Lateral thinking for management: a handbook”

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