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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.

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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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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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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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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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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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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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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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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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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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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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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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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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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