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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.
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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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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Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.
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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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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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