Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
Edward de BonoMost executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward de BonoThis new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
Edward de BonoWe 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