“You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.”
Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician
Source: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 8.
“You have got through the difficult business, now you dig, dig, dig, until you are safe.”
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