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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

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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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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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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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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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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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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future
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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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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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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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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America is not just a country, it's an idea.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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