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"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced."
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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."
"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."
"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."
Explore more quotes by Edward de Bono
"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists."
"In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures."
"Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic."
"Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting."
"In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better."
"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore."
"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience."
"The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it."
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