“We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.”
― Edward de Bono, quote from Six Thinking Hats
“Creativity involves provocation, exploration and risk taking. Creativity involves "thought experiments." You cannot tell in advance how the experiment is going to turn out. But you want to be able to carry out the experiment.”
― Edward de Bono, quote from Six Thinking Hats
“There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)”
― Edward de Bono, quote from Six Thinking Hats
“It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)”
― Edward de Bono, quote from Six Thinking Hats
“It may be that Japanese culture is not ego-based like Western culture: argument has often a strong ego base. The most likely explanation is that Japanese culture was not influenced by those Greek thinking idioms which were refined and developed by medieval monks as a means of proving heretics to be wrong. (p36)”
― Edward de Bono, quote from Six Thinking Hats
“Real life, however, is very different from school sums. There is usually more than one answer. Some answers are much better than others: they cost less, are more reliable or are more easy to implement. There is no reason at all for supposing that the first answer has to be the best one.”
― Edward de Bono, quote from Six Thinking Hats
“las fallas deben corregirse, las debilidades deben suprimirse y los problemas, resolverse.”
― Edward de Bono, quote from Six Thinking Hats
Edward de Bono
Born place: in Malta
Born date May 19, 1933
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“Are you prepared?" she asked when the other Valkyries had their passengers in place.
"Sure," Matt said. "But we could use a soundtrack this time. Maybe a little Wagner. Da-da-da DUM dum."
Hildar looked back at him blankly.
"Wagner? Ride of the Valkyries? Da-da-da ... Er, never mind."
"Oh!" Baldwin said. "I know that one!"
"Don't feed the geek," Fen muttered.
"Hey," Matt said. "I'm not a -"
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― K.L. Armstrong, quote from Odin's Ravens
“A brother's love? You don't know him at all, do you. What's a death but easy, quick. It's supposed to haunt you forever that the one time he beat you was the one time that mattered.”
― C.S. Pacat, quote from Captive Prince: Volume One
“In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!”
― Sophocles, quote from The Three Theban Plays: Antigone / Oedipus the King / Oedipus at Colonus
“Weddings are about fantasies—you understand? Your job is to photograph the fantasy, not the reality. Never the reality. If I ever see another picture like that, you’re fired.”
― Mira Jacob, quote from The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
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