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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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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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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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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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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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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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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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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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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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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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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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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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America is not just a country, it's an idea.
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