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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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University Teacher
Republic of Malta
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono
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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic simplicity after understanding is simple.
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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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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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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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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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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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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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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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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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Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.
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America is not just a country, it's an idea.
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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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