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This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .
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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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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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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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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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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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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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The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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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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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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Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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America is not just a country, it's an idea.
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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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