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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
Edward de Bono
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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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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future
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It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.
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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.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.
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Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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People should realize we're jerks just like them.
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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.
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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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