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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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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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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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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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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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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
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Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ... It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.
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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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