America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
EDWARD DE BONOHappiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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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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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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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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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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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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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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