Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent. Edward de Bono employmenthourincrease Change image and share on social
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced. Edward de Bono discoveridealie Change image and share on social
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field. Edward de Bono fieldfindgrowth Change image and share on social
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. Edward de Bono carcoachfault Change image and share on social
I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it. Edward de Bono childdealestablish Change image and share on social
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. Edward de Bono inadequacylogicmistake Change image and share on social
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. Edward de Bono attentionchangehumor share on social
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. Edward de Bono barbigidea Change image and share on social
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. Edward de Bono breakcreativityexperience Change image and share on social
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor. Edward de Bono amazeattentionhumor Change image and share on social
