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You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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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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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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On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
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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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The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'
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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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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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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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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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
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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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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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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 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 think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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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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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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