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Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.


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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