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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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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Explaining belief has alwayas been difficult. How do you explain a love and a logic at the heart of the universe when the world is so out of whack? Explaining faith is impossible - vision over visibility - instinct over intellect - a songwriter plays a chore with the faith that he will hear the next one in his head.
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People should realize we're jerks just like them.
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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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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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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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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.
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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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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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