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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

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Edward de Bono
Age: 88 †
Born: 1933
Born: May 19
Died: 2021
Died: June 9
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
Republic of Malta
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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