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Edward de Bono Quotes

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: english
Birth: May 19, 1933

Topics

Creativity Look Way Out Patterns

An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.

Life Family Home Children Die Help

The mechanic could lift up the bonnet of the car and show me four dwarves strapped to a pair of tandems and tell me that the motor was actually dwarf-powered and that one of the little fellows had to be replaced, and I'd just be numbly writing out a cheque and scribbling 'new dwarf - car' on the stub.

Car Me Writing Mechanic New Lift

I'm 56 years old. I like to get out on the court. I continue to try to play the best I can. Obviously, I'm nowhere near where I was when half this age. But I can still hit a pretty decent ball.

Age Best I Can Play Try Out

What I support is a whole different approach with regard to drug use, and that is spending less money on the prosecution and incarceration side and more money on prevention and education, which I know works.

Education Money Support Prevention

I've got three kids, and my three kids make me feel like I'm getting older every day.

Day Getting Older Me Feel Every Day

People meditate themselves because they are just trying to feel better, and transcendental meditation is a natural mental technique that you can perform and that provides that relaxation and also a little bit of broader perspective.

Perspective People Better Feel You

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

Work Key Doing Survival Down Matter

I got into television in 1998 when I didn't have a computer or even an email address.

Television Email Got Computer Even

You would not want me on your football team.

Seth MacFarlane

Football Me Team You Want Your

'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.

Love Children People Writing Care

The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.

Art Healing Body Human Human Body

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

First Days Protest Sense After

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