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Edward de Bono Quotes

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Creativity Creative Talent Thinking

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

Destiny Wedding Hanging Likewise

Sometimes you'll write while listening to a piece of music and think it's great, but then you'll go back and read it without the music and go, 'This sucks.'

Music Great Listening Think You Go

Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.

Family Time Team Long You Single

Knowing the strike zone is very important, but I think the first thing is knowing yourself, knowing what things you do well.

Yourself Think You Important Knowing

The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African fractals - and then just get out of the way.

Best Tools Powerful New Way Out

I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.

Yourself Surround Yourself People You

It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

Truth People Me Truth Is Face Kind

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

Great Struggle Together Loved Movies

Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.

Music Building Play Sometimes Jokes

'Mira Grant' is actually my pseudonym. And 'Seanan' is pronounced 'SHAWN-in.'

Grant Actually Pseudonym

When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.

School Brain You Cell Phones Phones

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

Hope Poetry Healing Potential Bad

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