Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Edward de Bono Quotes

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Feel Say Star Awkward Must Role

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

Knowledge Fight Problems Problem Who

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Faith Stupidity Direction Bad Vanity

If a transporter could send me from the bed with the dogs watching crappy TV to the stage five minutes before I go on, then immediately back to bed, I would love it.

Love Me Back Bed Go Watching

I'm really an actor first. I'd love to do more straight plays.

Love Actor More First Straight

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

Man College Go New Garbage Jersey

What shaped my politics regarding war and peace was Martin Luther King Jr., the most extraordinary person that I ever heard. And when he began to talk about the issues of war and peace with such eloquence and such passion, I was drawn to that like a magnet.

Passion Politics Peace War King

I loved writing fiction. I mean, once I found the character, or the characters, and knew who they were and knew their back-stories, it really - I mean, I went into my studio every day, thinking, 'What's gonna happen to Billy today?'

Character Today Day Writing Thinking

My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned it into a cookbook. He called it 'The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.' It was kind of genius. When I took it a book agent, he was like, 'Men don't buy cookbooks.'

Love Food Men Me Book Husband

We have a broad array of teams. And if somebody asked me whether a team is a good buy, my response is, 'You'd better hurry up, they're going like hot cakes, and they're going to be even more valuable when we get a system that is even more sustainable.'

Good Me Team Better You Hot

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

Journey Freedom People Media You

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

Time Trust Earned Come Only Passage

Stars are always bigger. They bring the audience to the theatres. More than that, they do a lot of work in a film, and they are always on top. I am in no way competing with them.

Work Stars I Am Way More Top

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Edward de Bono