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Edward de Bono Quotes

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Humor Me Attention Always Little

A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt.

John Gordon Sinclair

Me T-Shirt Critic Got Once Printed

I'm aware families sit around the telly to watch 'Vera', which is making entertainment out of murder. But I don't enjoy reading about people's pain. I tend to put myself in that position, and it's not somewhere I want to be.

Myself Pain People Reading Enjoy

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.

Confidence Someone Poverty You Need

Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of nearly all the great scenes in all the great plays, from 'Oedipus' to 'Hamlet.'

Stephen Sondheim

Great Time Song Game You Way

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

Change Women People Black Cinema

Lady Gaga is phenomenal. From the first day I met her, she was lightning in a bottle.

Day Lady She First Lightning Her

Good shows tend to be more fun to do. If you feel like you are doing something good and making a good show, it is a lot more enjoyable.

Good Fun Feel Doing You More

Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social, and political forces that have made the United States the most punitive nation on earth. Perhaps they worry the truth might actually set the captives free.

Michelle Alexander

Truth People Free Prison Political

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

You Two Eat Days Some Properly

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

Science Letters Inspired Being Get

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

Annie Leibovitz

Good Famous More Being Famous Being

I learned how to make videos, I learned how to make music, I learned English from the Internet. It's such a great platform, too, to release your stuff.

Music Great Internet Release English

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