The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
EDWARD DE BONOCreativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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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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To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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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.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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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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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.
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