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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.
Edward de Bono
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Edward de Bono
Age: 88 †
Born: 1933
Born: May 19
Died: 2021
Died: June 9
Philosopher
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University Teacher
Republic of Malta
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono
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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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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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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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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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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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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 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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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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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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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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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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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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It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic simplicity after understanding is simple.
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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 have to design the future
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