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Edward de Bono Quotes

English - Psychologist | May 19, 1933 -

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

Vision Eyes Great Value People Way

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Memory Left Something Happens Does

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Experience Creativity Free Need Up

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Opportunity Lie Waiting Ideas Need

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

History Moment Ignorance Words Doing

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.

Science Purpose World Out Us Get

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

People Realize Just Like Jerks Them

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Best Expectations Difference Talents

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Car Perfect First May Faults Motor

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Success Growth Yourself You Find

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

Identity People Think Young Danger

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.

Time Thinking Africa Month Out Four

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