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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

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
Mock
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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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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.
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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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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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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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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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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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
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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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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.
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