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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.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono A good design is not a democratic consensus.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono 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 Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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.
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