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Logic will never change emotion or perception.

~Edward De Bono

Topics: Change Emotion Logic Never Perception Will

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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

~Edward De Bono

Topics: Crowd Occur Opportunities Wait Will You

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

~Edward De Bono

Topics: Jerks Just Like People Realize Should Them

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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

~Edward De Bono

Topics: Field Find Growth Little Lucky Mad Rapid Successful Talented Very You Yourself

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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

~Edward De Bono

Topics: Changing Important Joke Perception Switch Think Way

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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

~Edward De Bono

Topics: Employment Five Hours Increased Just Percent Teaching Thinking Unemployed Youngsters

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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

~Edward De Bono

Topics: Around Discovered Ideas Lie Need Opportunity Produced Waiting

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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

~Edward De Bono

Topics: Because Better Continue Doing Freeze Frozen History Ignorance Insist Moment Perceptions Sense Should Then Use Words

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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

~Edward De Bono

Topics: Analyze Describe Get Make Model Models Out Purpose Science Us Use Useful World

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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

~Edward De Bono

Topics: Argument Create Meant Reveal Truth

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Psychologist

Born: May 19th, 1933

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