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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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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Motivation
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Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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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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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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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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Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.
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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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It is well known that problem avoidance is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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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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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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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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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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