“If you understand the system you can design appropriate action.”

“The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.”

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

“Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.- Edward De Bono”

“Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.”

“A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.”

“(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.”