Dale Easley's Favorite Quotations
| Lateral Thinking |
| de Bono, Edward |
| Lateral thinking is not stabilizing but provacative. It has to be in
order to bring about repatterning. Because it is not possible to
restructure a pattern by following the line of development of that
pattern, lateral thinking may be deliberately perverse. For the same
reason lateral thinking may use irrlelevant information or it may involve
suspending judgement and allowing an idea to develop instead of shutting
it off by pronouncing it wrong. (p. 51) The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar there is to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all. (p. 96) |