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Edward de Bono

My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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Fight Lesson Listening Teaching Thinking Time
America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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Country Idea One Liner
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
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
To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Confidence Development Enjoyment Skills
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Comfort Finding Myself Old Problem
The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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Best Chef Ingredient Result Win
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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Attraction Beautiful Goodness Listening Love Yourself
Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Creativity Greatness Interest Motivational People
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
To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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Analysis Deal Future Possible
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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Count Defend Enough Innovation People System
It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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Amazing Attention Humor Pay
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
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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Cheap Human Humor Mindset Reason
Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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History Poverty Willing Yourself

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