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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

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
Future
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Someone
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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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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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It is well known that problem avoidance is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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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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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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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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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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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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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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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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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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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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