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.
EDWARD DE BONOThe 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.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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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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We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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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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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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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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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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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 the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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