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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
Confusion
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Simplicity
Focus
Complexity

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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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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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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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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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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of 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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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.
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There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future
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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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America is not just a country, it's an idea.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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