The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. 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.

Quote by Edward De Bono

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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been...

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been...

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

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

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it...

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it...

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation...

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation...

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

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

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

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

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at...

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at...

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing...

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing...

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he...

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he...

There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without...

There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without...

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

Indecision has often given an advantage to the other fellow because he did his thinking...

Indecision has often given an advantage to the other fellow because he did his thinking...

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he...

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he...

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

Do not employ handsome servants

Do not employ handsome servants

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for...

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for...

You will make bad decisions. The real test is not to make the same ones...

You will make bad decisions. The real test is not to make the same ones...

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters...

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters...