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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.

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
Complexity
Confusion
Creates
Simplicity
Focus

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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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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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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You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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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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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after.
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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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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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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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