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People should realize we're jerks just like them.
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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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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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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Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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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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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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A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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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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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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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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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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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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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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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'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after.
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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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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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