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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.

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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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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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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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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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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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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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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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.
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It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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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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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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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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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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