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Edward de Bono

Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Better Criticism Oneself
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Simplicity Understand
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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Design Difference Enjoyment Future Need Past Suffering Yourself
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
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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Place Problem Remove Solve
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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Destroy Evidence Support Way World
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Determination Future Ourselves Quality Thinking
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Different Hole Place Yourself
The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Acceptance Concept Logic Rejection Selection Thinking
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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Better Enough Ideas Right Wrong
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Complex Creation Creativity Focus Simplicity
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.
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God Music Recognition Run
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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Arrival Destination Social Truth Value
Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
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Existence Ideas Immortal Spring
I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn’t have the established route to it.
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Children Deal Establishment Greatness Route Work Young

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