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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.

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
Criticise
Hypothesis
Better
Come

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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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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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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future
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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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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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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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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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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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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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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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