Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
EDWARD DE BONOI know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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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It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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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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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
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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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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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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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Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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