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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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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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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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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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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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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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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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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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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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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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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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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There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.
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Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.
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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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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper
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