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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

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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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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
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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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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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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It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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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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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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You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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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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Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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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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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .
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