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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
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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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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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People should realize we're jerks just like them.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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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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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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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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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.
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As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
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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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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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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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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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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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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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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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