Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analy...
EDWARD DE BONO Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. many people of average intelligence are skilled th...
EDWARD DE BONO If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
EDWARD DE BONO A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
EDWARD DE BONO A memory is anything that happens and does not completely unhappen. The result is some trace which i...
EDWARD DE BONO One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing...
EDWARD DE BONO If you never change your mind, why have one?
EDWARD DE BONO Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled th...
EDWARD DE BONO I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.
EDWARD DE BONO People should realize we're jerks just like them.
EDWARD DE BONO Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
EDWARD DE BONO Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, m...
EDWARD DE BONO Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
EDWARD DE BONO Thinking is often regarded as an extension of the ego. Clever children in school base their egos on ...
EDWARD DE BONO Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations
EDWARD DE BONO In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be fle...
EDWARD DE BONO Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different w...
EDWARD DE BONO Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can b...
EDWARD DE BONO Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativit...
EDWARD DE BONO A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he'...
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 Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in ano...
EDWARD DE BONO The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but...
EDWARD DE BONO Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least onc...
EDWARD DE BONO A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
EDWARD DE BONO Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy...
EDWARD DE BONO In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in hi...
EDWARD DE BONO Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Thosethat focus on value creation wi...
EDWARD DE BONO Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
EDWARD DE BONO Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain
EDWARD DE BONO We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a p...
EDWARD DE BONO An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing wh...
EDWARD DE BONO It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solvin...
EDWARD DE BONO The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas
EDWARD DE BONO Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
EDWARD DE BONO Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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 Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us...
BONO I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concert...
BONO There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. Amer...
BONO When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special hap...
BONO You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with ro...
BONO I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of spec...
BONO Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easil...
BONO When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... t...
BONO What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes ou...
BONO The less you know, the more you believe.
BONO But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was m...
BONO To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even gre...
BONO I don't let my religious world get too complicated.
BONO It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
BONO I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.
BONO You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior,...
BONO Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the Uni...
BONO I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.
BONO Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megaloman...
BONO Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedo...
BONO It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BONO So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to l...
BONO If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A dee...
BONO My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
BONO I don't like the name, U2, actually.
BONO The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of gra...
BONO Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn...
BONO As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a c...
BONO Music can change the world because it can change people.
BONO Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now w...
BONO I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ...
BONO Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same...
BONO I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
BONO At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cran...
BONO When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt gover...
BONO I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be t...
BONO Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not ...
BONO Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich ...
BONO There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demandi...
BONO In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quit...
BONO I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've ...
BONO Africa is bursting into flames while we all stand around with watering cans
BONO The soul needs beauty for a soul mate. When the soul wants...the soul waits.
BONO The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, ...
BONO The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
BONO The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a se...
BONO When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same ...
BONO You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mo...
BONO Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage ...
BONO If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interd...
BONO But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went...
BONO I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, the...
BONO What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap ...
BONO I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's...
BONO It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang...
BONO Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
BONO Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
BONO I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things...
BONO As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be intere...
BONO Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music...
BONO Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the bui...
BONO Next time you go out for dinner, have a look around the table and if everyone is on your payroll, th...
BONO Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I...
BONO The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You kn...
BONO What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise...
BONO Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because...
BONO The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
BONO Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can...
BONO U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy tha...
BONO U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and whe...
BONO Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
BONO To be one, to be united is a great thing but respect the right to be different is maybe even greater...
BONO It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relev...
BONO I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are ...
BONO God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mo...
BONO I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.
SONNY BONO Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die,...
SONNY BONO There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things...
CHAZ BONO Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement h...
CHAZ BONO I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people...
CHAZ BONO Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.
MARY BONO I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how y...
CHAZ BONO Arnold has succeeded at every level, and I believe he is the only person that can unite the people o...
MARY BONO It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straigh...
CHAZ BONO With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial...
MARY BONO If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an ho...
SONNY BONO I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.
SONNY BONO The problem people are seeing is they want new leadership and that's not offering enough new leaders...
MARY BONO So many people got us through the loss, ... Certainly beginning with family on all sides, tremendous...
MARY BONO What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor...
SONNY BONO Nordic walking poles are very popular in Europe; they have Nordic walking parks in Germany and the S...
ANGELA BONO Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody el...
SONNY BONO Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
CHASTITY BONO Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dr...
CHAZ BONO I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.
SONNY BONO You burn up to 40 percent more calories with the same effort, but you're using your upper body. You ...
ANGELA BONO If you take a five-mile hike with Nordic walking poles, and you're not used to using your upper body...
ANGELA BONO They should coordinate their forces, but I'm not in favor of fusing the two missions,
JOSE BONO Today is a day of pain and mourning and solidarity with the families who lost loved ones.
JOSE BONO Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when the...
MARY BONO I believe that it is Congress' obligation to every individual facing a lifetime of suffering to full...
MARY BONO In Southern California we are more prepared for disasters than they were in the Gulf (of Mexico) are...
MARY BONO I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wan...
CHASTITY BONO I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff...
CHAZ BONO You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it...
SONNY BONO With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break do...
SONNY BONO Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of ...
CHASTITY BONO For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'...
CHAZ BONO For the past 6 years, it is my privilege and honor to serve as the Representative for California's 4...
MARY BONO the only appropriate remedy.
MARY BONO People hope to point to the White House with pride. We believe that presidents told the truth and se...
MARY BONO I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to b...
CHAZ BONO When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in...
CHAZ BONO Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of ...
CHAZ BONO A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.
CHAZ BONO I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to ri...
CHAZ BONO I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.
CHAZ BONO I feel really good, I feel like a man now, and I'm really happy.
CHAZ BONO I came out around 25 publicly.
CHAZ BONO I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I...
CHAZ BONO Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
CHAZ BONO Being self-supporting is important to me.
CHAZ BONO I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.
CHAZ BONO I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.
CHAZ BONO People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on tele...
CHAZ BONO What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
CHAZ BONO I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.
CHAZ BONO When you transition, everyone kind of has to transition around you.
CHAZ BONO Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.
CHAZ BONO I have always said that life is more important than politics.
JOSE BONO It is good to evoke what happened, and to conjure up what might, happen again. Those who come togeth...
JOSE BONO It could have been an accident or it could have been an attack from the exterior,
JOSE BONO It could have been an accident or an attack. The causes have not been fully clarified.
JOSE BONO These missions must remain separate with separate chains of command. The only thing they have in com...
JOSE BONO The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n...
EDWARD HOPPER The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
EDWARD HOPPER I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
EDWARD HOPPER I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
EDWARD HOPPER It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu...
EDWARD HOPPER Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before...
EDWARD HOPPER I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio...
EDWARD HOPPER In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati...
EDWARD HOPPER I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
EDWARD HOPPER In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER