Edward de Bono Quotes

You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of its exhausted ideas.

The thing about it is, I'm one of these people that if you're not getting anywhere, you gotta change it up, and you gotta ask more questions.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution.

We cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm.

Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

Engineers and entrepreneurs are fundamentally dissatisfied with the way the world is and want to make it better. There are so many things you could do with technology if you can match it up with real problems.

One of the things that Dumbledore is always trying to do is to empower the kids to take ownership of issues and be creative and involved. That's what we see today. We need to empower America to be a creator of its solutions going forward in a new, very confusing world.

Occasionally, you have to make adjustments and try different things.

The future for us is not to go bigger but to go different.

We try to bring something different for every tour.

Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.

Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.