Edward de Bono on oneself
Edward de Bono128 quotes“Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.”
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We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono 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 BonoEdward de Bono You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono 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.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono 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.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono 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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Love is mostly easy at night, it is morning you got to learn about.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh You can find beauty in the darkest of places. Be the light, my love. Bring smiles to their faces.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola This fearless heart is trapped between these anxious walls of my worried mind.
CindyCindy Don’t push away your emotions too hard, remember they can push back if held for too long.
SargamSargam To choose a plain life, I choose neither to lose and nor do I gain, If happiness is not in my destiny, I refuse to accept pain.
Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Steal back your heart – self-love.
Mona-LiseMona-Lise Hope is the only thing that keeps us alive. Without hope there can be no you or I.
BelaBela An open mind opens our hearts to have compassion for others.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays
More on oneself
How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian The right thing isn’t always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So…good luck figuring that out.
Stephenie MeyerStephenie Meyer Video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
Vin DieselVin Diesel Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We’ve all experienced that, in one way or another.
Vin DieselVin Diesel Eating chocolates or popping pills won’t reduce depression. Instead, one must read Gita. This will help relieve the stress and depression in life. It will help in dealing with challenges of life.
Sushma SwarajSushma Swaraj The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
William McKinleyWilliam McKinley Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
Coretta Scott KingCoretta Scott King
