Edward de Bono Quotes About Opportunity

Quotes about: Opportunity

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  If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Waiting

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

• Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

  Edward de Bono

  Lying, Opportunity, Waiting Around

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

• One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The mind however does not actively sort out information. The information sorts itself out and organises itself into patterns. The mind is passive. The mind only provides an opportunity for the information to behave in this way. The mind provides a special environment in which information can become self-organising. This special environment is a memory surface with special characteristics.

  Edward de Bono

  Memories, Book, Thinking

  Edward De Bono (2010). “Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step”, p.14, Harper Collins

• We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.

  Edward de Bono

  Technology, Opportunity, Thinking

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