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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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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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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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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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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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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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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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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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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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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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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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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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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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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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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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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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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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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