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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.
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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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic simplicity after understanding is simple.
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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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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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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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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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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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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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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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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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 . . .
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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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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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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