Edward de Bono Quotes

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.

Generally, people don't change their minds about fundamentally deeply held beliefs; it doesn't happen in an instant - it's a process.

As a driver, it was easy to find the negative in things. But when I got out of the car, everything about the sport, my whole perception of just about everything in the sport, did a 180.

My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.

There is nothing more powerful than a changed mind.

It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. To me, that's really cool - when games can change you.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

The key to transforming mental models is to interrupt the automatic responses that are driven by the old model and respond differently based on the new model. Each time you are able to do this, you are actually loosening the old circuit and creating new neural connections in your brain, often referred to as self-directed neuroplasticity.

I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

Changing your perspectives will not only transform you but also the whole world.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as that meter sticks shorten when they move or that simultaneous position and momentum have no meaning, but in the insight that we had not been using our minds properly and that it is important to find out how to do so

There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

The most difficult thing is changing people's mindset.