I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.
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EDWARD DE BONO It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more ...
EDWARD DE BONO One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one...
EDWARD DE BONO The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas...
EDWARD DE BONO The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model...
EDWARD DE BONO Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produc...
EDWARD DE BONO A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely not happen.
EDWARD DE BONO Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
EDWARD DE BONO It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually ...
EDWARD DE BONO To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapi...
EDWARD DE BONO In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing ...
EDWARD DE BONO I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up wit...
EDWARD DE BONO I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acqu...
EDWARD DE BONO There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that m...
EDWARD DE BONO An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...
EDWARD DE BONO The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
EDWARD DE BONO