What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
EDWARD DE BONOCreativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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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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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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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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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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