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"All valuable creative ideas are logical in hindsight. However, initially they are usually invisible to logic. Lateral Thinking™ gives you the power to see"      "You can analyse the past but you have to design the future."       "Thinking is a skill that can be taught. Unless we teach thinking we waste over fifty per cent of the talent available in society."       “The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future” " Like the front left wheel of a car, our traditional thinking is excellent - but inadequate."       "Thinking is far too often concerned with the judgement of "what is" rather than the design of "what can be."        "Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."       "Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways."       "Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."       "If you never change your mind, why have one?"      "Perception is real even when it is not reality"       "You can analyse the past but you have to design the future"       "The quality of our future will depend directly on the quality of our thinking"        "If you do not design your own future, someone else will do it for you"       "In winning an argument you gain nothing, in losing you gain another point of view"       "A good idea never excludes a better one" "Intelligence is like the horse-power of a car - thinking is the skill with which the car is driven"       "You do not use the reverse gear all the time but when you need it you really do. It's the same with creativity"       "If you learn the successes of the past you risk being trapped by them"      "Possibility is to progress as hunger is to cooking"      "Everyone behaves logically within a personal bubble of perception, values and experience"      "Arrogance is the real system sin because it cuts the system off from reaction and reality"      "With a provocation there may not be a reason for saying something until after it is said"      ""I think therefore I am" I do, therefore I matter"
2006 H , A New Religion?
2005 The Six Value Medals
2003 A Beautiful Mind (editions Random House)
2000 Super Mind Pack (editions Game)
2000 The De Bono Code Book (editions Penguin Books)
1999 New thinking for the New Millennium (editions New Millennium C/O Client Distribution Services)
1998 Simplicity (editions Penguin Books)
1997 How to be more interesting (editions New Millennium C/O Client Distribution Services)
1996 Edward de Bono’s Textbook of Wisdom (editions Penguin Books)
1996 Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (Abridged) (editions Editorial Reviews)
1995 Mind Pack (editions Games)
1995 Teach Yourself How to Think (editions Penguin Books)
1994 Parallel Thinking: From Socratic Thinking to de Bono Thinking (editions Penguin Books)
1993 Water Logic (editions Penguin Books)
1992 Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas (editions Harper Colllins)
1992 Sur/Petition: Creating Value Monopolies When Everyone is Merely Competing (editions Profile Books)
1992 Teaching Your Child How to Think (editions Penguin Books)
1991 Handbook for the Positive Revolution (editions Penguin Books)
1991 Six Action Shoes (editions Profile Books)
1990 I Am Right-You Are Wrong: From This to the New Renaissance: From Rock Logic to Water Logic (editions Penguin Books)
1990 Thinking Skills for Success (editions Penguin Books)
1988 Decision Mate (editions Int. Centre for Creative Thinking)
1985 Réfléchir Mieux (Editions d'Organisation)
1985 Conflicts: A Better Way to Resolve Them (editions Penguin Books)
1985 Six Thinking Hats (editions Penguin Books)
1984 Tactics: The Art and Science of Success (editions Penguin Books)
1982 de Bono’s Thinking Course (editions Editorial Review)
1979 Future Positive (editions Penguin Books)
1978 Opportunities: A Handbook of Business Opportunity Search (editions Penguin Books)
1977 The Happiness Purpose (editions Penguin Books)
1977 Word power: An Illustrated Dictionary of Vital Words (editions Penguin Books)
1976 Teaching Thinking (editions Penguin Books)
1974 Eureka: A History of Inventions (editions Henry Holt & Co.)
1972 Children Solve Problems (editions Penguin Books)
1972 PO : Beyond Yes and No (editions Penguin Books)
1972 The Edward de Bono Science Fiction Collection (editions Elmfield Press)
1971 Practical Thinking: 4 Ways to be Right, 5 Ways to be Wrong, 5 Ways to Understand (editions Penguin Books)
1970 Lateral Thinking for Management (editions Penguin Books)
1970 Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity (editions Penguin Books)
1970 The Dog Exercising Machine (editions Cape)
1969 The Mechanism of the Mind (editions Penguin Books)
1967 The 5 Day Course in Thinking (editions Penguin Books)
1967 The Use of Lateral Thinking (editions Penguin Books).

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