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Edward de Bono Quotes
«Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| Keywords:
average, car, driven, highly, intelligent, People of, separate, skilled, The Car, thinkers
«The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. 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.»
«It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| About:
Humor,
Reason
| Keywords:
involved, perceptions, philosophers, significant, sort out, surprised
«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.»
«Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
almost all, analyze, business school, data, executives, graduates, graduating, scientists, totally, unfortunately
«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.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| Keywords:
constructive, cork, drift, drifted, drifts, river, tiny
«Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| About:
Unhappiness
| Keywords:
defined, expectations, talents, unhappiness, well-defined
«Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| Keywords:
discovered, lying in wait, produced, waiting
«Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| Keywords:
complex, complexity, dealing, inefficient, justification, mental energy, unnecessary, waste of energy, waste of time