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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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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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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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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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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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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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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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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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Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic simplicity after understanding is simple.
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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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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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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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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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When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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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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