In Southern California we are more prepared for disasters than they were in the Gulf (of Mexico) area.


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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
Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN
I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
MARY GARDEN
I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
MARY GARDEN
If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN
My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of ...
MARY GARDEN
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence...
MARY GARDEN
I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I cou...
MARY GARDEN
For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
MARY GARDEN
In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con...
MARY GARDEN
A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything...
MARY GARDEN
My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
MARY GARDEN
It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei...
MARY GARDEN