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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
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Psychologist
University Teacher
Republic of Malta
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono
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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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Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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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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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
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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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You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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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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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.
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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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